• Cambodian farmers rise up over "land-grabbing"
    • Reuters
    • 19 Mar 2010

    In a move to attract foreign investment, Cambodia has awarded big concessions to companies, mainly from China, Vietnam and South Korea, to run mines, power plants and farms, leading to a rise in forced evictions by state officials profiting on the sale and lease of farmland for use by foreign and local companies.

  • Coffee colonialism: Olam plantation displaces Lao farmers
    • CorpWatch
    • 04 June 2012

    Between the farmers and Olam lies one of Lao’s most powerful, and some allege, corrupt families, the Siphandones.

  • PNG land scandal
    • ABC
    • 14 October 2012

    Logging companies in PNG are using special agricultural leases to clear vast tracts of rainforest timber, on the promise of roads and economic development for remote villages. Jemima Garrett investigates.

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