Ethiopia

Flower growers in Kenya strike against Karuturi Global
- CorpWatch
- 10 October 2013
Flower growers in Kenya have gone on strike to protest unpaid wages from Karuturi Global, the Indian flower export multinational.
Ethiopia: Land policy revised
- Africa Intelligence
- 27 September 2013
After enabling foreign firms to grab vast stretches of land, the government has begun to review its land policy.
Ethiopia: La politique foncière revue et corrigée
- Africa Intelligence
- 27 September 2013
En privé, les officiels éthiopiens reconnaissent l'échec de leur politique d'agriculture commerciale basée sur la location à bas prix d'immenses portions de terres à des firmes étrangères.
In Ethiopia, more land grabs, more indigenous people pushed out
- CSM
- 17 September 2013
A journalist's visit to South Omo, where rights groups say police have raped women and otherwise pressured locals to leave an area tagged to become a huge sugar plantation, was quickly curtailed by authorities.
Ethiopia to continue land grabbing and forced resettlement
- InterContinental Cry
- 12 September 2013
Indigenous Peoples are being forced to become dependent on aid handouts having lost their land and their ability to produce their own food.
Of commercial farming: beneath 'land grab' politics
- The Reporter
- 09 September 2013
In Ethiopia, some 43 firms have acquired agricultural land but scores of these have already left the sector, while 16 of them are currently under probation.
Firm wants Karuturi Flowers wound up
- The Star
- 07 September 2013
A manufacturer of a cartons and polythene bags has applied to the High Court in Kenya to wind up cash-strapped Indian flower firm, Karuturi.
When a traditional past collides with an irrigated future
- Think Africa Press
- 21 August 2013
Are the government's large-scale developments in southern Ethiopia forcing local populations to move with the times or just move out the way?
Karuturi Global promoters increase pledge as problems continue
- Business Standard
- 14 August 2013
The promoters of Karuturi Global have been forced to increase their pledge towards the lenders by as much as 58% even as the company is trying to stabilise their operations in Ethiopia
How Indian flower power is changing Ethiopian lives
- BBC
- 10 August 2013
India and China are pushing heavily to open new markets in Africa but how do the local people feel about the results? BBC News video report.
Indian rose growers raise scent of division in Ethiopia
- BBC
- 04 August 2013
Slideshow about controversies around Karuturi's flower farm operations in Ethiopia
Are US and UK 'turning a blind eye' as Ethiopia uproots natives?
- CSM
- 19 July 2013
California think tank issues double-barreled report alleging Washington, London are willfully ignoring gross violations.

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