L’Afrique est-elle vraiment en train de passer aux mains des investisseurs étrangers ? Les choses ne sont pas si simples, relate Foreign Policy.
- Foreign Policy
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20 Oct 2015
Are foreign investors really snatching up as much of Africa as they can? It’s not that simple, Foreign Policy reports.
- Foreign Policy
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20 Oct 2015
Troubled plantations company Karuturi Limited’s owners have asked the High Court to jail the flower firm’s receiver managers for denying them access to its financial records in disregard of a court order issued in July.
- Business Daily
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08 Sep 2015
Many Punjab farmers who went to Africa and Georgia in search of greener pastures are returning home
- Business Standard
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30 May 2015
Deposed Indian flower firm is planning a major comeback to Kenya next month, after entering a debt deal that would enable it retake its vast farms currently under control of its creditor CFC Stanbic Bank.
ESAT's WWH Show interviews Obang Metho on land grabs by Karuturi and other companies in Ethiopia.
The approach taken by Ethiopia and India to reaching development goals and fulfilling environmental promises by leasing or buying large tracts of fertile land affects land, water and indigenous people.
- Digital Journal
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03 Mar 2015
World of Matter project provides video and photos about large-scale agricultural projects, including the Pinesso Group's operations in Sudan and Karuturi's farms in Ethiopia
- World of Matter
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11 Feb 2015
Receiver managers of embattled flower farm Karuturi are disputing claims the farm and its assets have been put up for sale.
Naivasha-based flower farm Karuturi Ltd — the Kenyan subsidiary of the world’s biggest producer of cut roses — has been put on sale by receiver managers.
- The Daily Nation
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26 Jan 2015
Director of agricultural investment at Ethiopia's Ministry of Agriculture says Karuturi is on the verge of collapsing in Ethiopia and that the company "has gone bankrupt following internal management crisis”
Commercial farming, with its vast tracts of land, is running into problems in Ethiopia’s Gambella region – and local communities are reaping few benefits