Kenya

Africa’s land-grab disaster in waiting
- The Star
- 12 September 2012
Investments in industrial scale agriculture must balanced by equitable flow of benefits to smallholder farmers
Africa Food Security Conference
- AFSC
- 29 August 2012
1st Annual Africa Food Security Conference - AFSC 2012 is a regionally focused forum that aims to bring the interrelated parties together for discussions that will refocus food security issues in Africa in alignment with the continent’s requirement.
US firm plans $60m investment in agric. sector
- Vanguard
- 24 July 2012
Dominion Farms will start planting rice in December 2012 on its 30,000 ha rice farm in Taraba and has trained 50 commercial farmers in Kenya who will soon start their own commercial rice operations in Nigeria.
Kenya: Blind development
- Slow Food
- 18 July 2012
Indigenous communities are under threat from a recent spurt of investors and multinational companies interested in putting their money into Kenyan oil, mining, wind farms and agribusiness projects.
How African politicians gave away $100bn of land
- The Africa Report
- 02 July 2012
With minimal consultation, governments and local authorities are signing away huge tracts of land for lease on the cheap. Now communities are raising their voices in opposition to these projects that bring little local development.
Squeezing Africa dry: behind every land grab is a water grab
- GRAIN
- 11 June 2012
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.
Indian farmer’s African safari
- Business World
- 02 June 2012
Karuturi, which has 300,000 ha in Ethiopia, is now targeting the DRC, Tanzania, Mozambique, Senegal and Sierra Leone.
Beyond the rosy picture
- Business Today
- 28 Mar 2012
Largest cut flower exporter Karuturi Global ventures into food business
Human Rights Watch flags Indian agri-company Karuturi’s Ethiopia operations
- Livemint
- 20 January 2012
“There is no villagization programme,” Sai Ramakrishna Karuturi, founder of Karuturi Global, told Mint via telephone. “This is a completely jaundiced western vision. They assume anything in Africa has to be done by the whites and the Chinese and Indians should have businesses only in their own countries.”
Indian firms look to Africa for business opportunities
- BBC
- 11 December 2011
Karuturi Global is now one of the biggest private land owners in the world. They have invested over a quarter of a billion dollars in Ethiopia and Kenya alone. BBC reports.
Battle over the Yala Swamp: Multimillion investment turns out to be a case of a deal gone sour
- Reject
- 10 November 2011
The Dominion Farms at Yala Swamp, Kenya has seen the local community turn against what they initially welcomed with open hands.
Are foreign investors colonising Africa?
- Al Jazeera
- 25 October 2011
Indian author and media commentator Anand Giridharadas joins this Al Jazeera programme along with Oakland Institute’s Executive Director, Anuradha Mittal, and Christine L. Adamow, Managing Director of Africa BioFuel, a US company invested in farmland in Kenya and Tanzania.