India

Ethiopia. Now is harvest time
- L'Hebdo
- 03 September 2009
In June 2009, the Indian company Karuturi took up intensive farming in Ethiopia. The harvest will be exported to Asia and Europe.
Ethiopie. L’heure de la moisson a sonné
- L'Hebdo
- 03 September 2009
Indiens et Saoudiens sont sur le point d’effectuer leur première récolte sur sol éthiopien. Le pays a prévu de céder 2,7 millions d’hectares aux étrangers.
Dossier : Le grand défi alimentaire
- L'Hebdo
- 03 September 2009
Le gouvernement éthiopien mettra 2,7 millions d’hectares à disposition des investisseurs étrangers, 1,6 million d’ici à octobre, à des conditions privilégiées. Enquête excellente de l'Hebdo en Ethiopie et au Madagascar.
Agricultura mundial. Compra tierra y corre. Fósforo ¿hay futuro?. Hambre para hoy y mañana. ¿Qué agricultura?
- Kaos en la Red
- 19 August 2009
La crisis del fósforo (clave para la vida), un grave y nuevo reto para la Humanidad. Respuestas capitalistas a la decadencia de la agricultura mundial y alternativas proletarias. Eslóganes.
Hunger-ridden Ethiopia defends land grabs
- Business Daily
- 14 August 2009
Ethiopia is on the defensive over a plan to offer 2.7 million hectares of land to foreign, mainly Asian, companies despite millions crying out for food aid from the international community.
Foreign states in race to take up Ethiopia’s farmland
- Daily Nation
- 13 August 2009
Ethiopian government has defended its plan to offer 2.7 million hectares of farmland to foreign companies despite millions of citizens who need food aid from the international community.
Ethiopia says Indian firms invest $85 mln in biofuel, paper works
- Reuters
- 10 August 2009
Emami Biotech's project has already begun at Awash Sebat Kilo some 250 km east of the capital Addis Ababa growing Jatropha, sunflower, castor, pulses and various herbs at a cost of $24 million.
L'Ethiopie attire les investisseurs avec des hectares de terres
- Reuters
- 29 July 2009
L'Ethiopie a délimité 1,6 million d'hectares de terres arables qu'elle réserve à des investisseurs, souvent étrangers, pour qu'ils y développent des exploitations agricoles, a déclaré mercredi un responsable.
Interview: Ethiopia sets aside land for foreign investors
- Reuters
- 29 July 2009
"The government has verified and delineated 1.6 million hectares of virgin land suitable for large-scale commercial farming in different parts of the country," Esayas Kebede, Director of the recently formed Agricultural Investment Support told Reuters.
India: Edible oil industry eyes offshore cultivation
- Economic Times
- 24 July 2009
India's edible oil industry, which has been trying over the past couple of years to venture into oilseeds cultivation in Paraguay and Uruguay, but could not make much headway due to high cost of finance, is charged up again to take fresh initiatives to realise the dream project.
Investors see growing fields of opportunity across Africa
- NZ Herald
- 23 July 2009
The Confederation of Indian Industry disagrees with critics of India's foreign landgrabbing for agriculural production
Uruguay farm visit (with CII)
- YouTube
- 22 July 2009
Visit to a 2000 hectare farm in Uruguay on July 4, 2009 with Vinod Surana, CEO of Surana and Surana and leader of CII delegation from India visiting Argentina and Uruguay on June 29 - July 3, 2009