Researchers say the construction of a dam and sugarcane plantations has dispossessed the Lower Omo’s peoples of their farming and grazing lands and irreversibly altered the natural cycles of the Omo River.
In recent years, the Ethiopian government has been enthusiastically renting large swathes of its territory to both local and foreign investors, regardless of who is already living there.
With attention centered on the civil war in the country over the last two years, the hunger and health crisis in the Omo Valley caused by the Gibe III Dam and the Kuraz Sugar Development Project has gone ignored.
New research studied 160 large-scale land acquisitions made between 2005 and 2015 across Europe, South America, Africa and Asia looking at how much of this land acquisition would cause competition and water grabbing.
Une revue de 15 projets dans 11 pays tire la sonnette d'alarme sur l'accaparement de l'eau et appelle à une action urgente pour protéger le droit à l'eau en Afrique.
A review of 15 large-scale agriculture projects across 11 African countries, exposes how these projects lead to the loss of streams and swamps and pollute water sources.
Elara India Opportunities Fund, which Indian lawmakers suspect may be linked to Gautami Adani, was the largest foreign shareholder in Karuturi Global Ltd, owning 3.25% of the company in 2018.
Le parc agro-industriel intégré de Bulbula qui s’étend sur 271 hectares est « une démonstration de la vision de la prospérité du secteur agricole » portée par Addis-Abeba
In an order dated January 25, 2021, Honorable NCLT Bengaluru has initiated liquidation proceedings in the matter of Karuturi Global Ltd.
The Development Bank of Ethiopia suspending loans for commercial farms because of the failure of numerous farms in Gambella, where the Bank was even tricked into giving two loans for a single agriculture project.
Too few investors knew the land; too many deals were crooked. Yet officials hint that the government wants to promote huge farms once more, this time by expanding wheat production to boost food security.
Ethiopia's Mursi tribe says they were imprisoned and tortured to protect Chinese sugar plantations.
