Kenya

Policy uncertainty holding back investment in agriculture
- howwemadeitinafrica.com
- 23 June 2016
Grow Africa executive director William Asiko dismisses concerns about large-scale land grabbing in Ethiopia as "perceptions".
Karuturi ex-workers demonstrate over unpaid dues
- hivisasa
- 08 June 2016
More than 200 former employees, waving placards and chanting slogans, accuse the company of failing to settle their dues before the company is taken over by a new management.
Karuturi boss laughs off sale of his flower farm, calls the business ‘air’
- Standard
- 10 May 2016
Ramakrishna Karuturi has mocked plans to sell off his Naivasha-based flower farm, saying the liquidation procedure will not affect his ownership of the land, which is held through separate subsidiaries.
Curtains fall as Karuturi finally closes shop
- Citizen
- 06 May 2016
One of the country’s largest flower farms Karuturi limited has officially been closed, with receiver managers and liquidators moving in to wind up the farm.
Focus on Thursday court ruling over sale of troubled Karuturi
- Business Daily
- 01 May 2016
After close to three years and many court cases in Nairobi and Nakuru, the curtains appear to be coming down on one of the world’s biggest players in the cut flower industry — Karuturi Limited — after its owners conceded to an application to wind it up.
Karuturi to be auctioned over toxic debts, workers fate unknown
- Daily Nation
- 04 April 2016
Kenya’s biggest flower firm is set to go under the auctioneers’ hammer, as owners of the Indian multinational failed to defend the winding up petition filed in court by creditors.
Saudi prince, Kenya partners locked in battle for agro-firm
- Business Daily
- 23 Mar 2016
Prince Sultan Bin Nasser Bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud has sued three Kenyans he accuses of forging his signature and transferring ownership of a multi-billion shilling company that has leased 100,000 acres at Galana, Kilifi County, to cultivate sugarcane.
Bidco vs Uganda’s farmers – Who do you believe?
- APO
- 25 February 2016
Farmers association says Bidco’s pronouncements fall flat, calls for a coalition to fight against company’s influence peddling
Ugandan farmers want to cut ties with Bidco
- The Nation
- 23 February 2016
Ugandan farmers want the United Nations Development Programme to cut ties with Kenya’s Bidco and investigate it for alleged malpractices against Ugandan, Kenyan and Tanzanian growers.
Ugandan farmers call on United Nations to sever ties with Bidco Africa
- BFA
- 22 February 2016
The Bugala Farmers Association has called on the UNDP to sever its ties with Bidco Africa, a Kenya-based edible oil producer accused of land-grabbing, human rights violations and environmental disasters in Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania
New study on Dutch floriculture investments in eastern Africa and the impacts on local food security
- F&BKP
- 16 February 2016
The Netherlands Academy on Land Governance / IDS Utrecht University has conducted a scoping study on Dutch flower farms, land governance and local food security in eastern Africa
L'agence française de développement sert les intérêts de l'agrobusiness en Afrique
- Mediapart
- 15 February 2016
Ce financement représente toute l’hypocrisie de l’aide française au développement qui finance, via des paradis fiscaux, une entreprise qui pratique l’accaparement de terres en Afrique, relate Mediapart.