• Prospective Congo palm oil plantation wrecking prime great ape habitat
    • Mongabay
    • 05 February 2016

    The Atama plantation may never happen, but that uncertainty hasn’t prevented investors from potentially making a profit by clearing native forests and ruining ideal gorilla and chimpanzee habitat.

  • Accaparement des terres : une ombre sur Sarawak
    • AlterAsia
    • 04 January 2016

    Le gouvernement cède des licences d’exploitation des terres des populations indigènes à des entreprises privées pour les plantations de palmiers à huile.

  • Inside Indonesia’s highest-profile land conflict
    • Mongabay
    • 07 December 2015

    Oil palm plantations have sprung up at breakneck speed across Indonesia’s ravaged hinterlands, eating away at the forests and propelling this country of 250 million to become the world’s sixth-largest emitter of greenhouse gases.

  • À Bornéo, des drones cartographiques contre l’accaparement des terres
    • Visionscarto
    • 06 December 2015

    Quand les cartes sont produites par des consultants privés et par des services de l’État qui privilégient un « développement » agro-industriel aveugle, les victimes sont les villageois qui se voient spoliés de leurs vergers et de leurs terres communes. Mais certains résistent, et parmi leurs armes figurent les photos aériennes prises avec des drones qu’ils ont eux-mêmes construits. À Bornéo, partons à la découverte de deux initiatives de contre-cartographie. Tout d’abord, dans le Kalimantan, la partie indonésienne de l’île de Bornéo, avec Patrick Meier ; en complément, un entretien avec le musicien et militant Jok Jau Evong, au Sarawak (Malaisie), rapporté par Aude Vidal.

  • #RuralWomenRiseUp: Groups to hold simultaneous actions to assert rights to land and resources
    • PAN AP
    • 15 October 2015

    As the world marks the International Rural Women's Day, simultaneous activities organised by PAN Asia Pacific (PANAP) and rural women's groups from various countries to highlight the call for rural women to rise up and assert their rights to land and resources.

  • Chinese PE firm AFC to invest up to $20m in startups, agriculture companies in Malaysia
    • Deal Street Asia
    • 14 October 2015

    China private equity firm AFC Investments Ltd is planning to allocate between $10 million and $20 million for investment in start-ups as well as medium and large agro-related Malaysian companies, including in food processing and farming.

  • Land grab prevention campaign in Volta Region, Ghana
    • AFJN
    • 05 October 2015

    AFJN’s Ghana volunteer Task Force on Land Grab Prevention reached out to the Regional Association of Queen Mothers (female chiefs) in Ghana’s Volta Region for the purpose of training its members on the issue of land grabs.

  • Will KLK proceed with the corrupt Sepik oil palm deal?
    • Act Now
    • 24 August 2015

    PNG’s Minister for Trade, Commerce and Industry sign a Heads of Agreement that would make KLK an equity partner in development of 37,000 ha oil palm project in East Sepik’s Special agriculture Economic Zone(SEZ).

  • Norway’s wealth fund expels POSCO, Daewoo Int’l over palm oil holdings
    • Mongabay
    • 18 August 2015

    Norway’s central bank is divesting the country’s $870 billion pension fund of its holdings in four Asian multinationals for palm oil in Southeast Asia. POSCO and Daewoo were excluded for the activities in Merauke, Indonesia’s Papua province.

  • FGV aims to seal deal for Eagle High stake by end-October
    • Deal Street Asia
    • 17 August 2015

    Felda Global Ventures Holdings Bhd (FGV) aims to enter into a definitive agreement for its proposed acquisition of Indonesian palm oil company PT Eagle High Plantations Tbk by October 31 this year.

  • La aspereza del aceite de palma
    • El País
    • 08 August 2015

    Malasia e Indonesia controlan el 80% de un industria que mueve 45.000 millones y tiene efectos nefastos en el medioambiente.

  • Tycoon wants to make Indonesia global player in food supply
    • The Star
    • 29 June 2015

    Peter Sondakh, the Rajawali Group chairman and chief executive officer, has set his sight on making his company a global giant in the palm oil business and sees PNG as the game changer for the industry.

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