• Ethiopia's stolen land
    • Le Monde diplomatique
    • 05 December 2013

    Government plans to reform Ethiopia’s agriculture failed to consider the country’s peasant culture, subsistence farming and basic needs, letting the corporations take the most fertile land from peasant farmers.

  • Land grabbing and forced evictions in Ethiopia
    • ASO
    • 26 November 2013

    In Ethiopia, where pastoralists and indigenous communities are displaced and evicted from their traditional lands amidst widespread human rights abuses, history is repeating itself.

  • Ethiopia’s farm investment plans falter on flood plain
    • Bloomberg
    • 26 November 2013

    Karuturi, like many other large-scale investors, underestimated the complexity of opening land for large-scale commercial agriculture.

  • Ethiopia: Saudi Star rice project feels the pinch
    • The Reporter
    • 23 November 2013

    The Pakistani company MCG Consulting, which had been working with Saudi Star Agricultural Development Plc on a rice farm in the Gambella Regional State, has pulled out of the project.

  • Terres volées d’Ethiopie
    • Monde Diplomatique
    • 18 November 2013

    Quelle que soit la finalité — production agricole ou investissement financier —, de ces accaparements des terres, les bénéfices échappent presque toujours aux communautés locales. L’exemple de l’Ethiopie est emblématique.

  • Attack on Indian-owned farm in Ethiopia turns spotlight on land policy
    • The Hindu
    • 05 November 2013

    A violent attack on a tea plantation leased by Indian-owned Verdanta Harvest Plc, a subsidiary of the Noida-based Lucky Group, has renewed concerns over Ethiopia’s policy of leasing out large tracts of land to international investors.

  • Aiding and Abetting - UK and U.S. Complicity in Ethiopia's Mass Displacement
    • Think Africa Press
    • 04 November 2013

    In the face of evidence, the UK and US continue to deny systematic human rights abuses are occurring in the Lower Omo as thousands are displaced for an irrigation scheme.

  • Ethiopia - Land for sale (Video)
    • Journeyman Pictures
    • 28 October 2013

    Ethiopia's huge agricultural output has brought about an economic miracle for the nation. But inhabitants are being pushed out of their native land by foreign investors and have no share in the profits.

  • Ethiopian subsistence farmers subject to forced relocation
    • Redeye Collective
    • 21 October 2013

    Anuradha Mittal of the Oakland Institute speaks abouthow farmers in Ethiopia are being pushed off their land to make way for multinational agribusiness.

  • Ethiopia: Highlanders will overtake soon Gode
    • Shekosh Report
    • 18 October 2013

    Huge delegation lead by Ethiopian prime minister Hailemariam is on a tour at Shabelle region to inspect lands prepared for investors.

  • Ethiopia’s land grabs: Stories from the displaced
    • InterContinental Cry
    • 17 October 2013

    Anywaa Survival Organisation (ASO) recently had an opportunity to interview affected community representatives and leaders who fled their homes in Gambela and Lower Omo because of government land grabs.

  • Cevital à la conquête de l’Afrique
    • Depêche de Kabylie
    • 12 October 2013

    «Nous avons des projets en Afrique, notamment au Soudan, en Ethiopie, au Kenya, en Tanzanie et au Mozambique. Notre idée est d’aller dans ces pays qui nous offrent des terres agricoles et beaucoup d’eau».

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