African nations like Zambia, Ethiopia and Mozambique invited Indian investors to invest in various sectors, especially in agriculture, saying this has the potential to provide food to both Africa and India.
Ethiopia is working to reduce bureaucracy related to processes in agricultural investment according to Tefera Derebew, Minister of Agriculture.
The Ethiopian government is forcibly displacing indigenous pastoral communities inEthiopia’s Lower Omo valley without adequate consultation or compensation to make way for state-run sugar plantations, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today.
Le gouvernement éthiopien exproprie de force des communautés d'éleveurs autochtones dans la basse vallée de l'Omo, a déclaré Human Rights Watch dans un rapport publié aujourd'hui.
An Egyptian model farm is to be created in Ethiopia on an area of some 500 feddans [210 ha] with the potential for expansion in the regional state of Afar some 600 kilometres north of Addis Ababa.
- Egyptian Gazette
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14 June 2012
The company has approached the African Development Bank, the African Export-Import Bank and the Eastern and Southern African Trade and Development Bank to raise another $100 million for a sugarcane estate.
GRAIN looks behind the current scramble for land in Africa to reveal a global struggle for what is increasingly seen as a commodity more precious than gold or oil - water.
Despite the lucrative returns that foreign investors can achieve by investing in African agriculture, the on-the-ground realities of operating in the continent is often less rosy.
- HowWeMadeItInAfrica
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09 June 2012
Uno de los países analizados en este informe es Etiopía, donde los campesinos de la provincia de Gambela han sido forzados a instalarse en aldeas pre-designadas por el Estado, facilitando así el camino a los acaparadores de tierra. Gambela es la región más pobre de Etiopía.
- Global Voices
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07 June 2012
Die Gesellschaft für bedrohte Völker (GfbV) protestiert gemeinsam mit Äthiopiern am Mittwoch in Köln vor der ersten Deutsch-Äthiopischen Wirtschaftskonferenz gegen Landraub und die Vertreibung von Ureinwohnern sowie Kleinbauern in Äthiopien.
Major agricultural investor in Ethiopia, Saudi Star, has bigger problems there than it might have expected.
- African Agriculture
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06 June 2012
Karuturi, which has 300,000 ha in Ethiopia, is now targeting the DRC, Tanzania, Mozambique, Senegal and Sierra Leone.
- Business World
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02 June 2012
