Documents - Plantations

Fever - Facilitators Guide

This guide is for community leaders and facilitators who are using Fever the video series about indigenous peoples and climate change. The guide covers all 4 videos and offers example discussion questions, additional facts and resources and examples of follow up planning, action and activities to be carried out with communities.

Dibalik Kertas Panduan

Dibalik Kertas adalah sebuah lm tentang hutan tanaman industri atau yang dikenal sebagai HTI. Sampai saat ini, pemerintah Indonesia telah mengeluarkan ijin-ijin diatas lahan seluas 10 juta hektar. Pemerintah juga berencana untuk memberikan ijin-ijin baru diatas lahan seluas 12 juta hektar dalam 20 tahun ke depan. Film ini dibuat berdasarkan suara dari 8 komunitas di Papua, Sumatra Utara, Riau dan Jambi yang telah kehilangan sebagian atau seluruh wilayah leluhur mereka karena HTI. Kita akan mendengar dampak-dampak yang telah mereka alami, baik terkait ekonomi lokal, air, budaya, ketahanan pangan dan hak-hak atas tanah mereka. Film ini juga menunjukkan bagaimana masyarakat mengorganisir diri untuk mengatasi berbagai tantangan yang ada.

Territories of Life - Facilitators Guide

This booklet is for community facilitators who are using the Territories of Life Video series. The booklet covers information about each video in the series as well as tips on hosting screenings, discussions and action planning sessions with communities.

The New Snake Oil? Violence, threats & false promises driving rapid palm oil expansion in Liberia

As Liberia emerges as a new frontier market for the world’s cheapest, most popular vegetable oil, The New Snake Oil details how state officials are said to be helping the palm oil company Golden Veroleum (GVL) harass communities into signing away their land and crush dissent. The report also documents the huge foreign investment, state-sanctioned violence, and regulatory black holes that are making this possible. Global Witness reveals how GVL (whose parent company is the Indonesian Golden Agri-Resources) accelerated its operations at the peak of Liberia’s 2014 Ebola outbreak. This report comes at a point when ten percent of Liberia has been designated for agricultural plantations, despite the lack of a legal framework to regulate how companies acquire contracts, operate and remain accountable for their activities (www.globalwitness.org, 2015).

West Papua Oil Palm Atlas

The West Papua Oil Palm Atlas portrays a frontier region's early encounters with a crop that has come to dominate the Sumatran and Bornean landscapes.