Malaysia

FPP and partners launch new report and web portal for rights-based approaches and community solutions to tackling deforestation and ensuring supply chain accountability

Video of the mostly English-language session of a CFDT seminar featuring Dario Novellino and indigenous community representatives of the Coalition Against Land Grabbing operating in Palawan, the Philippines.

Des ONGs internationales ont condamné une annonce faite par le Groupe malaisien d’huile de palme (IOI) selon laquelle il a l’intention de vendre ses parts d’une plantation d’huile de palme qui a été au centre d’un conflit persistant avec les communautés de Sarawak, en Malaisie.

Malaysia's Camcashew Company and South Korean Naroo Marine Company will invest $100 million in a cashew nut export project in Kampong Cham province, including a 4,000 ha plantation and a 40,000 ha contract farming scheme.

Le gouvernement a réitéré son engagement à soutenir Atama Plantation dans l’atteinte de ses objectifs visant à développer au Congo la filière « huile de palme » même si sur les 180.000 ha concédés à la société, à peine 750 ha ont été plantés.

WRM talked with Nina Cynthia Kiyindou Yombo at the Congolese Observatory for Human Rights about what she saw during her visit to the ATAMA operations in the Sangha region of the Republic of Congo.

With its renewed promotion of what it calls the “Sunshine Industry,” the Philippine government is looking to cultivate another one million hectares of oil palm, 98 percent of which would be on the island of Mindanao.

NGOs in Sarawak and around the world report failures by the Sarawak government to uphold indigenous land rights, and failures by international banks and investors to ensure their investments are conflict-free.

According to a report released today by leading environmental and social justice advocates, the investment management firm TIAA is leading a trend of speculating in land markets, which drives up farmland prices and displaces family farmers.

Less than 72 hours after President Joko Widodo's orders to implement the agrarian reform through land redistribution, peasant families of Mekar Jaya Village in Langkat District of North Sumatera Province in Indonesia were in for a rude shock.

Report gives an overview of the availability of information for land concessions in Brazil, Canada, Cambodia, Colombia, Indonesia, Liberia, Madagascar, Malaysia, Mexico, Myanmar, Papua New Guinea, Peru, Republic of the Congo, and Russia.

By inviting Malaysian oil palm investors in Palawan, Philippines, President Duterte is doing exactly the opposite of what he promised to do