Kenya

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.
Pelea por nuevas tierras
- El País
- 23 October 2011
Especuladores, Gobiernos, bancos y fondos de pensiones se lanzan a comprar
Nairobi Action Plan to advance land-based investments that benefit Africa
- UNECA
- 05 October 2011
Participants at a 2-day High-Level Forum on Foreign Direct Investments in Land in Africa have resolved to promote land-based investment models that increase agricultural productivity and maximize opportunities for Africa’s farmers.
Horn von Afrika: Landraub in der Hungerkrise
- FIAN
- 22 September 2011
Die beiden neu veröffentlichten Dossiers „Landnahme in Kenia“ und „Landnahme in Äthiopien“ stellen Land Grabbing in diesen nahrungsunsicheren Ländern auf den Prüfstand des Menschenrechts auf Nahrung.
Land grabs in Africa threaten greater poverty
- Epoch Times
- 21 September 2011
Desperate for foreign investment and the promise of development, African governments are increasingly offering to foreigners what their people rely on most—land
Chauhan in China to make pitch for investments in MP
- ZeeNews
- 17 September 2011
Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh's meetings with a delegation from Kenya, Karuturi and Ethiopia were focused on agriculture development and possible areas of work for mutual benefit.
China tills vigorously at African agro opportunities
- Business Standard
- 09 September 2011
Speaking at the annual African Cup of Investment Management, Alex Pestana said China had invested in arable land in Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda and Mozambique.
US company looking to farm rice in Nigeria and Tanzania left trail of devastation in Kenya
- GRAIN
- 07 September 2011
The people living on the lands now being targeted by US-owned Dominion Farms can learn a lot from the film Good Fortune, which provides a behind-the-scenes account of the struggle of a local community in Kenya to defend their lands from this company.