There's a saying in Indonesian palm oil industry: Sumatra is yesterday, Kalimantan is today, and Papua is tomorrow. Tomorrow might well have arrived. A new report sheds light on the industry's rapid expansion in Indonesia's easternmost region and the companies behind the plantation drive.

More than 300 villagers formed a human barrier, blocking bulldozers owned by the two foreign companies, Vietnamese developer Thy Nga and Taiwanese firm PNT who are encroaching ancestral farmland and operating outside of the boundaries set by their concessions.

"Les actions nécessaires seront introduites contre les propagateurs de ce mensonge," annonce le groupe Socfin.

Il land grabbing si presenta insomma come un’ultima versione del neocolonialismo, che priva della loro terra i pastori e i piccoli coltivatori locali, l’accaparramento dell’acqua e la perdita della biodiversità. La ricerca si è concentrata sull’Etiopia, l’Arabia Saudita e gli Emirati Arabi: la fotografia è accompagnata da ampi testi esplicativi

Asia’s largest sugar producer, Thailand’s Mitr Phol Sugar Corporation, has withdrawn from its three plantations in Oddar Meanchey province in Cambodia following years of criticism over alleged illegalities and human rights abuses at the concessions.

My Home, My Land is a graphic representation that dismantles the myths promoted by donor countries, development agencies, and corporations about the positive effects of foreign direct investments through large-scale land acquisitions.

¿Qué es tal invasión? ¿Qué cubre tantas y tantas hectáreas de esta tierra de enorme fertilidad? Ustedes mismos reconocerán por su morfología que son palmeras, pues sí, este bosque sin fin es un bosque de palma africana que las empresas multinacionales han convertido en una epidemia planetaria para su beneficio.

One of China’s largest beef producers, Honda Agriculture, is looking to buy up to $100 million worth of cattle property in Australia over the next 12 months.

Because of plantations or infrastructure projects, people are displaced from the land that their livelihood depends on. To improve matters, the UN voluntary guidelines on the tenure of land, forests and water must be implemented.

Comboniano, encarregado do sector “Justiça e Paz”, o P. Arlindo Pinto escreveu uma carta aberta ao Governo de Moçambique, pedindo a revisão do ProSAVANA que visa o desenvolvimento agráriono país, mas que corre o risco de aumentar a pobreza.

Os países do G-8 querem assumir a terra do continente africano, exportando suas tecnologias e ignorando qualquer conhecimento agroecológico.

English translation of the joint request by 6 Japanese NGOs to the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Japan, and the President of JICA