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24 Apr 2013CIRAD
Appropriations foncières et modèles agricoles
Ce numéro spécial des Cahiers Agricultures analyse la place accordée au foncier et aux diverses formes d’agriculture dans les stratégies des Etats, des investisseurs et des communautés d’acteurs locaux.
03 Apr 2013Bloomberg
Asian palm-oil planters head to West Africa
Suitable land for palm-oil cultivation is running out in top producers Malaysia and Indonesia, which now account for about 85 percent of the global output. Wilmar is among several companies searching for land in West and Central Africa.
22 Mar 2013WSJ
Cargill expanding palm-oil plantations in Indonesia
“We are aggressively looking for new areas in Sulawesi, Central Kalimantan and South Sumatra that are environmentally safe to expand our oil-palm footprint,” says president-director of the company’s oil-palm plantations in Sumatra.
02 Mar 2013awasMIFEE
Agrarian problems emerge as corporations use MIFEE project for capital accumulation.
People in Indonesia consider the food crisis as an excuse, deliberately created so that corporations could assert control over the necessary business which is central to most people’s lives.
23 Feb 2013Today Online
Wilmar buys 53.7% stake in Noble’s Indonesia palm venture
Wilmar International has taken a majority stake in a palm plantation venture in Indonesia’s Papua owned by Noble Group, giving the world’s biggest palm oil supplier a toehold in the province where it also hopes to grow sugar cane.
13 Feb 2013Xinhua
Indonesia plans to expand palm oil, cocoa plantations to Nigeria
"Nigeria has offered land for us, no matter how large we need," says Indonesian Industry Minister MS Hidayat
11 Feb 2013Awas MIfee
Land grabbing in a forgotten country – MIFEE-affected villager visits Netherlands
‘Feed Indonesia, then feed the world’. Backed by this slogan Indonesia companies, and companies from South Korea, China and Singapore as well, are buying land in the Indonesian province of West Papua in order to grow crops.
29 Jan 2013Jakarta Globe
Indonesia’s Salim Group enters Brazil
Indofood Sukses Makmur is planning to acquire a 50 percent stake in a plantation company in Brazil through its subsidiary Indofood Agri Resources, as the company expands its sugar plantation business.
20 Jan 2013AFP
Au Liberia, la résistance paysanne s'organise entre les palmiers à huile
Leurs terres cédées par le gouvernement aux planteurs malaisiens et indonésiens, des paysans du Liberia dénoncent des accords qui les ignorent: après 15 ans de guerre civile, des nouvelles luttes s'annoncent.
20 Jan 2013Jakarta Globe
Destroying local livelihoods with Mifee
“We don’t want to work for palm oil companies, we want our forest back,” says Christianus Ungkujay
31 Dec 2012DTE
The struggle for land, DTE special edition newsletter
Special Dec 2012 edition of Down To Earth (Indonesia) on land grabbing
21 Dec 2012Tabloidjubi.com
The impact of MIFEE presence at Bian River and Maro River, West Papua
Report from Indigenous Peoples Organization of Bian Enim

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