Special Agriculture and Business Lease; SABL; Department of Lands; land grab

SABL concept is being misused

On 29 Jan, 2012 By rait man

Submitted by Ryu

By reading some comments made by others, I believe people do not really understand what the underlaying problems are here in Papua New Guinea regarding the issuance of SABL.

The negative impacts can outweigh the benefits in international investments in agriculture

On 28 Jan, 2012 By rait man

Large-scale investments in agriculture do not necessarily increase food supply, close yield gaps or expand production. Rather, such investments often negatively affect local populations, leading to dispossession and displacement.
The terms of the contracts and compensations for local populations are highly questionable.

Huge SABL's in Western Province 'not practical’

On 25 Jan, 2012 By rait man

By Luana Paniu

A massive total of 2 million hectares granted under four but bordering Special Agriculture and Business Lease (SABL) reportedly for poultry and vegetable farming is not practical according to former Lands Secretary, Pepi Kimas.

The sub-leased areas which are located in the Western Province and extends onto the borders of both the Southern Highlands and West Sepik Provinces, includes one individual SABL totalling a land mass of 790,800 hectares.

Sepik landowners argue over support for SABL

On 24 Jan, 2012 By rait man

THE majority of the people in the Sausso local level government in East Sepik want the Special Business Lease (SABL) granted by the government under portion 144C for development of oil palm on the Sepik plains to stay, claims The National (which is owned by logging giant Rimbunan Hijau).

They said a recent statement by Jimmy Harinagu, from Rofundogum village, claiming that the people of the LLG area were unhappy with the SABL was incorrect.

Papua New Guinea govt refuses to stop SABL inquiry

On 23 Jan, 2012 By rait man With 1 Comments

The Commission of Inquiry into the Special Agriculture and Business Lease will not be stopped, says the government.

Minister for Lands and Physical Planning Lucas Dekena told Parliament last Friday, in response to questions from Maprik MP Gabriel Kapris, that the inquiry was initiated by the former regime and the government had extended it for another three months to allow the commission to complete its work in the selected provinces.

He said the government would not stop the Commission but allow it time to submit its report to Parliament by March.

New video shows how PNG villagers have found better alternatives to oil palm

On 17 Jan, 2012 By rait man

Sausi village in Madang Province, Papua New Guinea, is a community which resisted oil palm monoculture and has instead developed its own forms of co-finance and development. Relying on small-scale cocoa production, rice farming, fish breeding, peanut production and other cash crops, village cooperation is showing how communities can keep control of their land and use their own resources to build a better future.

Ex-Customs chief opposes land grab for rice project

On 17 Jan, 2012 By rait man

By Simon Eroro

FORMER PNG Customs Commissioner Gary Juffa is seeking legal advice from his lawyers to stop a rice project promoted by Eliana Tjandra from the Papindo Group of companies, a naturalised citizen, reports the Post Courier.

Drekirir SABL illegal

On 12 Jan, 2012 By rait man

By Luana Paniu

A K3 million agriculture and business project in Drekirkir, East Sepik Province has not been recognized by the Government as a Special Agriculture and Business Lease (SABL) despite functioning as one.

Under an agreement signed between a Malaysian Logging Company (named) and a prominent Leader, a least 56,000 hectares of land was leased in 1998 under lease-lease back arrangement for the planting of Oil Palm.

Commission probes ITS over Western Province land deals

On 11 Jan, 2012 By rait man

By Jacob Pok

THE Commission of Inquiry into the Special Agriculture Business Lease (SABL) is investigating a foreign-owned company over the acquisition of more than two million hectares of land in Western.

The Independent Timber and Stevedoring Company, a subsidiary of a US-based company, was engaged by the government to construct a 600km Trans-Papua Highway from Kiunga into Central’s Hiritano and through three other provinces.

Gadaisu villager complains over 99 year lease

On 11 Jan, 2012 By rait man

Gadaisu village is in Milne Bay province near the Central province border. The village is on state land which is being developed by Tamoua Estates Ltd under a 99-year leasehold. For the past 10 years villagers had been petitioning the government to return the land to them but have not received a favourable response from the Lands Department.

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Special Agriculture and Business Lease; SABL; Department of Lands; land grab

Large-scale investments in agriculture do not necessarily increase food supply, close yield gaps or expand production. Rather, such investments often negatively affect local populations, leading to dispossession and displacement.

The terms of the contracts and compensations for local populations are highly questionable.

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