Taiwan

Thailand’s CP Group suspends plans for 6 poultry farms in E. Taiwan
- Taiwan News
- 11 June 2020
Indigenous villagers have been protesting and fear air and water pollution in their communities
Cambodia: Protesters, guards clash in a bid to reclaim farmland
- Phnom Penh Post
- 23 August 2017
About 100 community members locked in a long-running land dispute with the owners of Koh Kong Sugar Industry Company clashed with Chamkarmon district security forces after blocking the street in front of the Land Management Ministry
Landless Cambodian farmers look to International Criminal Court for justice
- Reuters
- 22 November 2016
The case is significant as it could change the way community displacement in the wake of large-scale land deals is tested and prosecuted
Landless Cambodian farmers look to International Criminal Court for justice
- Reuters
- 22 November 2016
The case is significant as it could change the way community displacement in the wake of large-scale land deals is tested and prosecuted
Taiwan firm plans to invest $2.5 bln in livestock farms, wharves in Ha Tinh
- Thanh Nien
- 24 June 2016
Taiwan’s Wei Yu Engineering Company has sought licenses from Vietnam's central province of Ha Tinh to build a US$1 billion livestock farming and food processing complex and a $1.5 billion wharf.
Asia's agrarian reform in reverse: laws taking land out of small farmers' hands
- GRAIN
- 30 April 2015
Legislative changes now sweeping across Asia threaten to displace millions of peasant families, undermine local food systems and increase violent conflicts over land. Already, just six percent of Asia's farm owners hold around 66% of its farmland.
Solidaridad a Sindicato de Campesinos de Taiwan (TFU) y al Frente Rural de Taiwan (TRF)
- Vía Campesina
- 15 June 2013
¡No al acaparamiento de tierras y aguas y a la liberalización del comercio en Taiwan!
Group opposes entry of Taiwan’s agribusiness giant at Apeco
- Business Mirror
- 27 May 2013
Nan Tsan plans to engage in fish processing as its priority undertaking, for which it will lease a seaside area of 1,000 square meters, and is eyeing 10 hectares of land within the ecozone for the cultivation of papaya
Farmers’ militant actions victoriously shut down the bioethanol plant
- APC
- 30 August 2012
The Asian Peasant Coalition, the Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas and the Danggayan dagiti Mannalon ti Isabela say that because of farmers’ militant actions a bio-ethanol plant was victoriously shut down in San Mariano, Isabela, northeastern Philippines
Call for due procedure in rectifying the Land Expropriation Act
- Taiwan Rural Front
- 12 December 2011
Government sponsored land grabbing in Taiwan has caused not only domestic grievances but also international concern.
Stop land grabbing in Taiwan!
- TRF
- 06 July 2011
Taiwan Rural Front holds an international press conference today, requesting the authority to stop land grabbing in Taiwan. It also announces its “return” to the Ketagalan Boulevard on July 16th, with farmers whose farmlands are under the threat of unjust expropriation.
International group probes alleged land-grab by foreign firms
- Inquirer
- 06 June 2011
An international fact-finding team is in the country to investigate the alleged land-grabbing by Philippine, Japanese and Taiwanese companies of some 11,000 hectares from indigenous peoples in Isabela to build the biggest bio-ethanol project in the Philippines.