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Area burned in Indonesia fires ‘greater than the Netherlands’

22 October 2020

Indonesia

Greenpeace slams Indonesia for lack of action against the palm oil sector as vast areas of forests burned in five years.

Which version? Confusion over environmental fallout of Indonesia deregulation law

13 October 2020

Indonesia

A rule allowing subsistence farmers to burn small plots of land has been reinserted into the Job Creation Act passed last week.
Other provisions affecting the plantation industry have also been adjusted in a new version of the law that appeared this week.

Farmers brave bullets, prison for community land titles

6 October 2020

Thailand

Main photo: The family of Chai Bunthonglek, a farmer who was killed in 2015 in a community farm in Klong Sai Pattana in Surat Thani province in southern Thailand, Aug 24, 2020. (Photo: Thomson Reuters Foundation/Rina Chandran)

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Palm oil companies continue to criminalize farmers in Sumatra

16 January 2019

Authors:

Gaurav Madan

Indonesia

Nearly five years after Friends of the Earth U.S. reported about escalating conflict between farmers in the village of Lunjuk on the Indonesian island of Sumatra and palm oil company PT Sandabi Indah Lestari — or PT SIL — those communities remain in conflict with PT SIL, which supplies Wilmar International, the world’s largest palm oil trader.

As Indigenous Groups Wait Decades for Land Titles, Companies Are Acquiring Their Territories

11 July 2018

Authors:

Laura Notess

Mr. Peter Veit

Global

The Santa Clara de Uchunya community has lived in a remote section of the Peruvian Amazon for generations. Like many indigenous groups, this community of the Shipibo-Konibo people have traditionally managed and relied on forests for hunting, fishing and natural resources.

But in 2014, someone started cutting down large sections of the community’s ancestral forests.

Palma: el vecino incómodo

26 March 2018

Guatemala

Cerco por sequía a comunidades q’eqchi’.

Helmer Velásquez

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Addressing Land Governance in International Responsible Business Conduct Agreements

Manuals & Guidelines

Reports & Research

February 2018

Global

The study was commissioned to the KIT Royal Tropical Institute in July 2017 by the Land Dialogue, with financial support from the Dutch Government. The objective is to provide insight and guidance into the relevance of land governance as a possible priority theme t o be considered in the process of the International Responsible Business Conduct (IRBC) Agreements.

Trends in global land use investment: implications for legal empowerment

Journal Articles & Books

Reports & Research

January 2018

Global

From the mid-2000s, a commodity boom underpinned a wave of land use investments in low- and middle-income countries. While agribusiness, mining and petroleum concessions often involve promises of jobs and public revenues, they have also prompted concerns about land dispossession, exclusionary investment models and infringements of the rights of vulnerable groups.

The Land We Lost

Reports & Research

July 2019

Malaysia

This publication is the outcome of our research on the socio-environmental impacts of large pulp and paper, timber tree and oil palm plantations in Sarawak. It contains two case studies on plantation affected indigenous communities in Batu Niah and Bakong in the Miri Division.

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Organizations

Association of Zambian Mineral Exploration Companies (AZMEC)

AZMEC is the Association of Zambian Mineral Exploration Companies.

The aims and objectives of AZMEC are to provide a discussion forum and dedicated lobby group for mineral exploration companies and mining companies carrying out exploration as well as government representatives, NGO’s, service providers, academic institutions and other interested parties in Zambia with the view to contributing to the growth, promotion, and sustainable development of the sector in this country.

Green Scenary

Green Scenery is concerned that 60% of the total area in one of the districts in Sierra Leone could soon be converted for large-scale industrial oil palm plantations.

Natural Habitats

Natural Habitats Group is a company fully committed to the sustainable production of organic and fairly traded products, including organic palm oil. Natural Habitats products are cultivated using only 100% organic practices by small farmers and owned plantations in South America and add organic credibility to food, personal care and animal nutrition products.

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