By Witness Radio Team. In our breaking article published last week, Witness Radio and its contributors based on their data indicated that evictions rose during their...
The conservation industry is now promoting the idea of ‘buying up’ Conservation Concessions and reconstituting them as business models with profit-seeking aims. A case in point...
Land cleared in preparation for a Vietnamese rubber plantation, southern Laos Miles Colonial and anti-colonial movements’ have deeply shaped the patterns and impacts of concessions in...
This text comes out of conversations with women from the Ribeira River Valley who have devoted themselves to opposing the concession of one of the region’s...
Plantation workers holding a bunch palm oil fruit. The photo was taken in the Belgian colony of Congo, probably in the 1930s or 1940s. Many oil...
What a certain historiography terms civilizational expansion or capital’s expansion has in fact been the invasion and de-territorialization of peoples and communities using much epistemic and...
British firms not only controlled 80 per cent of the established ‘logging lands’ in Thailand, but they also influenced the establishment of the Royal Forest Department,...
Forest colonization in Thailand. The control of land was vital to colonisers. It meant wealth, territorial influence, access to ‘resources’ and cheap (and often enslaved) labour....
This bulletin focuses on a central cause of large-scale deforestation and dispossession of forest peoples: The imposition of land concessions as an instrument to separate, divide...
By Witness Radio Team. As the onslaught on civil society heightens, its space continues to shrink which has bearing on the services they render to the...