Al Amoudi

Documentary: Planet for Sale
- ARTE
- 03 May 2011
Film traces the story of the current mad race for control of farmlands, and the consequences it could have if nothing is done to protect the interests of small farmers and developing countries.
Documentaire : Planète à vendre
- ARTE
- 19 April 2011
Les crises alimentaire et financière qui ont secoué le monde en 2008 ont eu un effet méconnu du public. Elles ont provoqué une incroyable course pour la mainmise sur les terres cultivables partout dans le monde.
Landnahme in Äthiopien
- Der Tagesspiegel
- 03 April 2011
Das Klima ist ideal, Arbeitskräfte sind billig und die lukrativsten Märkte sind nur wenige Flugstunden entfernt. In Äthiopien züchten Investoren tonnenweise Gemüse und Reis. Jedoch nicht für die Bevölkerung.
Ethiopie : Le grand débat sur l’accaparement des terres
- IRIN
- 29 Mar 2011
L’Ethiopie ne supporte guère les critiques concernant sa politique de location de terres à grande échelle.
African land, up for grabs
- Anyuak Media
- 27 Mar 2011
A land grab is taking place all across Africa, a transfer of control unprecedented in the post-colonial era.
Ethiopia: The great land-grab debate
- IRIN
- 25 Mar 2011
Foreign investors are leasing vast tracts of land in Ethiopia
Saudi billionaire's company will invest $2.5 billion in Ethiopia rice farm
- Bloomberg
- 23 Mar 2011
The company leased 10,000 hectares in Ethiopia’s western Gambella region for 60 years for $9.42 per hectare annually and plans to lease an additional 290,000 hectares from the government.
Agribusiness boom threatens key African wildlife migration
- Yale e360
- 07 Mar 2011
Karuturi's 15 John Deere tractors plough 500 hectares a day on its 300,000 land concession in the Gambella region of Ethiopia. This is land clearance on a gigantic scale.
Silence over Ethiopian land grab broken
- Afrik News
- 17 February 2011
Land grabbing poses no harm on the environment or on the local community, says Saudi billionaire Sheik Mohammed Hussein Al-Amoudi who is seeking to expand his farmland in Ethiopia from 10,000 hectares to 250,000 hectares.
EPRDF banks on outsourcing food production
- Africa Intelligence
- 09 October 2010
Addis Abaaba has decided to withdraw from the regional governments the right of attributing leases of over 1,000 ha. However, the 2010 federal budget lists no income whatsoever, and no information on this subject appears in the quarterly reports of the National Bank of Ethiopia.
Saudi Star to swallow 100,000sqm of Bishoftu land
- Addis Fortune
- 21 February 2010
Saudi Star Agricultural Development Plc, the newest food growing company formed by Mohammed Hussein Ali Al-Amoudi, is to acquire 100,000sqm of land in Bishoftu (Debre Zeit) this week, its senior official disclosed.
Wikileaks: Ethiopia seeks dramatic change in agricultural land use
- Wikileaks
- 10 December 2009
"This apparent rush to lease so much farmland, much or all of it to foreign interests, during a time of worsening food insecurity should raise concern within the donor community about GoE motivations and negotiating capacity," writes the US embassy in Addis Ababa in December 2009