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.
Flower growers in Kenya have gone on strike to protest unpaid wages from Karuturi Global, the Indian flower export multinational.
After enabling foreign firms to grab vast stretches of land, the government has begun to review its land policy.
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.
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.
Indigenous Peoples are being forced to become dependent on aid handouts having lost their land and their ability to produce their own food.
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.
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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
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Slideshow about controversies around Karuturi's flower farm operations in Ethiopia
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