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Stop Devoting Our Lands for Food Security of Other Nations
- Asian Peasant Coalition
- 29 Mar 2012
At least 100 farmers joined a protest in front of the Department of Agriculture in Quezon City led by the members of the Asian Peasant Coalition (APC) in the Philippines such as the Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas (KMP), AMIHAN (National Federation of Peasant Women), UMA (Union of Agricultural Workers), and the PAMALAKAYA (National Federation of Small Fisherfolks of the Philippines). Also present is the Anakpawis partylist and the National Network of Agrarian Reform Advocates (NNARA)-Youth.
Wilmar makin agresif di perkebunan
- Kontan
- 25 February 2012
Pengembangan lahan perkebunan tebu Wilmar di Papua terkendala perizinan
PZ Cussons' Nigeria palm refinery starts work in Q3
- Reuters
- 23 December 2011
Its joint venture with Singapore's Wilmar will invest 100 billion naira in Nigeria over the next 5-7 years to develop oil palm plantations that will feed the refinery.
Thai sugar giant Mitr Phol seeks to take over 125-year-old Queensland sugar company MSF Sugar
- Property Observer
- 12 December 2011
The Thai company is seeking to acquire four far north Queensland sugar mills, more than 6,000 hectares of agricultural land and other infrastructure assets owned by MSF Sugar
Palm oil 'at dawn of new era of expansion'
- Agrimoney
- 05 December 2011
The palm oil industry is "at the dawn of a new period of expansion" in part thanks to increasing interest from food groups, which are moving into production to ensure supplies of an increasingly important commodity.
Australia: Plantation shutters
- The Australian
- 22 October 2011
Elders has begun a sale of all its forestry plantations totalling 50,000ha across the country. Much of the land purchased is expected to be planted with sugar cane, bananas or returned to beef grazing, and COFCO and Wilmar International have indicated their interest.
SIFCA remaining positive despite losing CEO in Ivory Coast violence
- HowWeMadeItInAfrica
- 28 September 2011
"We encourage countries to speed up reforms to modernise land rights," says new CEO.
Côte d'Ivoire : Sifca, une stratégie bien huilée
- Jeune Afrique
- 21 September 2011
Touché au cœur durant la crise postélectorale, le premier groupe privé de la Côte d'Ivoire panse ses plaies. Mais pas seulement. Le voilà qui, déjà, réamorce sa stratégie de croissance en Afrique de l’Ouest, notamment dans l’hévéa et le palmier à huile.
Sumatran tribe say lands stolen for palm oil
- Jakarta Globe
- 19 September 2011
The Anak Dalam Sungai Beruang say the Wilmar Group subsidiary, Asiatic Persada, forced them off their ancestral homelands.
New frontier palm oil players look to RSPO
- Reuters
- 05 September 2011
African and South American palm oil players are flocking to join the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil, highlighting a growing trend of the industry’s rapid expansion outside main producing region Southeast Asia
Cargill supplier linked to violence and home demolition in Indonesia
- RAN
- 29 August 2011
Newly uncovered customs data unearthed by Rainforest Action Network links agriculture trading giant Cargill to recent acts of violence, intimidation and home demolition against Indigenous villagers on the Indonesian island of Sumatra.
Shut the gate: why cash-strapped landowners are selling the farm
- SMH
- 01 August 2011
Australians do realise the value of what is being sold, a land agent and rural property specialist said, "but their hands are tied because they can't raise the money".

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