Deposed Indian flower firm is planning a major comeback to Kenya next month, after entering a debt deal that would enable it retake its vast farms currently under control of its creditor CFC Stanbic Bank.
ESAT's WWH Show interviews Obang Metho on land grabs by Karuturi and other companies in Ethiopia.
Los pueblos indígenas del valle bajo del Omo apenas han sido consultados sobre estos proyectos en su tierra, y cualquier atisbo de resistencia se topa con intimidaciones y la fuerza bruta.
Ethiopian Sugar Corp. is tapping loans from Development Bank of China to build six sugar-processing factories and plant 150,000 hectares of sugar cane in the region bordering Kenya. This may exacerbate conflict in the ethnically diverse region.
The Kwegu, the smallest and most vulnerable tribe in Ethiopia’s Lower Omo Valley, is starving as a result of the massive Gibe III dam and associated large-scale irrigation for commercial plantations on tribal land.
The approach taken by Ethiopia and India to reaching development goals and fulfilling environmental promises by leasing or buying large tracts of fertile land affects land, water and indigenous people.
World Bank and China join Ethiopia's government to relocate 200,000 villagers of the Omo River and Lake Turkana Valley to replace them with super-irrigation plantations.
A land grab twice the size of France is under way in Ethiopia, as the government pursues the seizure of indigenous lands to turn them over to dams and plantations.
World of Matter project provides video and photos about large-scale agricultural projects, including the Pinesso Group's operations in Sudan and Karuturi's farms in Ethiopia
En Ethiopie, les déplacements forcés et la déportation des peuples indigènes de leurs terres ancestraux suscitent de plus en plus de critiques et de plaintes judiciaires.
Internal watchdog finds link between World Bank financing and Ethiopian government's mass resettlement of indigenous group
Director of agricultural investment at Ethiopia's Ministry of Agriculture says Karuturi is on the verge of collapsing in Ethiopia and that the company "has gone bankrupt following internal management crisis”
