FairFrontiers Haiku
Read the winning pieces of the FairFrontiers Haiku Festival!
Paper: Fatal attraction to win-win-win? Debates and contestations in the media on Nature Conservation Agreement in Sabah, Malaysia
Kan, A., Brockhaus, M., John, G, Varkkey, H. (2024). Fatal attraction to win–win-win? Debates and contestations in the media on Nature Conservation Agreement in Sabah, Malaysia. Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change 29 (77).
Amplifying Local Voices Through a Photovoice Exhibition: The Struggle Amid Expanding Land Boundaries
Read about the photovoice exhibition that was held in Bengo Bengo, South Sulawesi. The exhibition featured stories from local villages, giving a glimpse into the perspectives of locals, whose forests and lands are increasingly encroached by expanding forest boundaries and mining activities.
Rammang Rammang: A success story about a community’s resistance to defend their ancestral home
Research Associate Azwar Azmillah Sujaswara writes about the story of community resistance behind the beautiful landscape of Rammang Rammang in South Sulawesi.
Interview series: Anne Lasimbang (PACOS Trust)
Since learning about social issues as a university student, Anne Lasimbang has been involved in community organising for more than thirty years. These activities eventually led to the formation of PACOS Trust. As founder and head of PACOS Trust, Anne was invited to speak at the 2024 RIHN International Symposium to talk about the organisation’s involvement with indigenous communities in Sabah. How did you become involved in what you are doing today? I first started through student movements when I was in university. At university, you have the opportunity to learn about social issues and injustices, especially those in rural areas. The movement made me became more aware of issues …
Interview series: Aristide Chacgom (Green Development Advocates)
Since 2009, Green Development Advocates (GDA) has been advocating for local community and indigenous people’s rights in Southwest Cameroon, where the development of large-scale plantations as well as a conservation area have created various environmental and socio-economic pressures on these communities. During the project’s annual meeting in January 2023, we interviewed GDA’s coordinator, Aristide Chacgom. How did you get involved in GDA? I am an environmental lawyer and joined GDA after graduating from school, and I have been coordinating the activities in GDA since 2015…so that means it has been more than six years! What does GDA do? Beside advocacy work for local communities, we support them by introducing them …
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Exploring Pitas, Sabah: Unequal Development and Ongoing Struggles
Researcher Andi Patiware Metaragakusuma writes her thoughts on the complex struggles surround customary land rights in Pitas, Sabah.
Interview Series: Moira Moeliono (CIFOR-ICRAF)
Dr. Moeliono is a Senior Associate at CIFOR-ICRAF, and is based in Bogor, Indonesia. She first started working in North and East Kalimantan twenty years ago, conducting research with local communities in forest-agriculture frontiers.
Book review: Transforming Borneo: From Land Exploitation to Sustainable Development
Wong, Grace. (2024). Review of Transforming Borneo: From Land Exploitation to Sustainable Development. Chun Sheng Goh and Lesley Potter. Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography.
Paper: Radical incrementalism: hydropolitics and environmental discourses in Laos
Niak Koh, Grace Y Wong and Thoman Hann. (2024). Radical incrementalism: hydropolitics and environmental discourses in Laos. Environmental Politics, 1–23.