A long term land lease (25 000 ha) for cotton farming in Amhara and Benishangul Gumuz regions for a period of 50 years (renewable)
"This apparent rush to lease so much farmland, much or all of it to foreign interests, during a time of worsening food insecurity should raise concern within the donor community about GoE motivations and negotiating capacity," writes the US embassy in Addis Ababa in December 2009
Avanza en Etiopía el alquiler de grandes extensiones agrícolas a firmas indias y chinas
Sai Ramakrishna Karuturi, managing director of Karuturi Global Ltd was conferred with the award for business excellence in agribusiness in Africa by Corporate Council on Africa, for the year 2009.
Lured by a new business model, wealthy nations flock to farmland in Ethiopia, locking in food supplies grown half a world away
I propose that a protest along this line in an international court be taken up to prevent loss of family farms in Latin America and Africa to the corporate landowners.
The Ethiopian government says concerns about foreign investors exporting food are outweighed by the plantations’ capacity to bring the country foreign exchange and technology, as well as creating employment.
Après l'industriel coréen Daewoo, les Indiens du groupe Varun convoitent des parcelles arables pour produire du riz. Les autorités sont méfiants.
Ethiopia plans to offer 3 million hectares of land over the next two years for investors to develop large-scale commercial farms, a government official said on Thursday.
L'originalité de la méthode Varun consiste à mettre en place des associations paysannes créées de toutes pièces, qui lui cèdent en fermage leurs terres pour une durée de cinquante ans.
In a bid to ensure food security for the country, Indian solvent extractors have sought government support to buy agricultural land abroad.
The Solvent Extractors’ Association of India, a body of over 800 edible oil producing companies, is looking to buy tracts of agricultural land in South America, Africa and Myanmar.
