Society / Land

Gigantic palm oil plantations across Indonesia and Malaysia are having a devastating impact on local farms and workers, too. Ollie Milman reports from Sumatra.

Indigenous Argentineans, disrespected and ignored for too long, are forging new alliances in their quest to safeguard the natural world.

Can smallholders be more productive than agribusiness? It looks that way in Zimbabwe, which has broken up its big farms, and where growers have nearly matched production of their white predecessors, in fewer than ten years. Joseph Hanlon reports.

Some of the world’s biggest and most controversial land deals.

The land rush started back in 2008. It has not gone unnoticed – or unchallenged.

Big land deals are forcing people from their homes and damaging livelihoods.

A visit to Mozambique dispels any notion that big business is going to ‘feed Africa’. Hazel Healy reports on a land rush in full swing.

22 April is Earth Day. Should punishment be made to those personally responsible for destroying our planet?

New Internationalist co-editor Hazel Healy travelled there to find out how people are adapting to a warming world.

Life has changed on the 'island paradise'- but foreign investment is not all it's cracked up to be. Jamie James looks beyond the tourist brochures.

More than 30,000 Bedouin, which the Israeli government call 'squatters', face eviction to make way for settlements, reports Libby Powell.