Hamar pastoralists are being evicted to roadside villages without their consent, and their ancestral grazing lands are being sold off to investors for commercial plantations.

The hard reality is that there is a sound business case to be made for commercial interests to aggressively attempt to control the very foundation of the food chain, the land itself.

"Les chefs d’État de l'Union Africaine et du G7 se réunissent en Sommet en juin 2015. Nous appelons tous les gouvernements participant à la Nouvelle Alliance à suspendre tous les engagements et les aides liés à la Nouvelle Alliance."

The policies promoted by the New Alliance facilitate the grabbing of land and other natural resources, further marginalize small-scale producers, and undermine the right to adequate food and nutrition

India can ill-afford to be tainted by accusations of complicity in land deals that disadvantage the people of Africa given the role it sees for itself in promoting co-operation among countries in the south.

Many Punjab farmers who went to Africa and Georgia in search of greener pastures are returning home

Foreigners mostly seek agricultural land and land for tourism developments, but all foreigner-owned land in Africa holds the potential to prompt violence from displaced people.

Social movements and civil society organisations are invited to endorse this statement by Monday 1 June 2015.

The Ethiopian Agriculture Investment Land Administration Agency disclosed that it has provided over 2.3 million hectares of land for investors this Ethiopia fiscal year.

The land rush unleashed around the world to own and exploit Earth’s natural bounty is not only fierce and unfair, but increasingly fatal, with lands, homes and forests bulldozed and cleared for foreign investors.

Midroc's subsidiary Elfora Agro-industry Plc plans to cultivate alfalfa on 300ha of land at Nettle and Shallo in the Oromia Region with an objective of producing 600 tonnes of forage a month.

Depuis 2004 la Banque mondiale a financièrement soutenu des projets qui ont eu pour effet de forcer 3,4 millions de personnes à quitter leurs terres ou leur logement.

New report gives damning indictment of the government’s mandatory resettlement policy carried out in a political climate of torture, oppression and silencing.

As China becomes a large importer, its food security strategy calls for gaining control over imports from their source.

In addition to these ongoing seven sugar factories, there is also an ongoing private initiative, Hiber Sugar S.C. which will operates on 25,000ha of land in Amhara Regional State at Tana Beles Basin.

ESAT's WWH Show interviews Obang Metho on land grabs by Karuturi and other companies in Ethiopia.

On Monday, March 23th the World Bank's Conference on Land and Poverty begins in the US. But farmer organizations, indigenous groups, trade unions and others denounce the whole exercise as a sham that is all about accelerating corporate land grabs and robbing the poor that the Bank was founded to assist.

Ten thousand peasant families are victims of the most aggressive and imperialist initiative backed by the G8 countries

Ethiopian Sugar Corp. is tapping loans from Development Bank of China to build six sugar-processing factories and plant 150,000 hectares of sugar cane in the region bordering Kenya. This may exacerbate conflict in the ethnically diverse region.

The Kwegu, the smallest and most vulnerable tribe in Ethiopia’s Lower Omo Valley, is starving as a result of the massive Gibe III dam and associated large-scale irrigation for commercial plantations on tribal land.

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.

World Bank and China join Ethiopia's government to relocate 200,000 villagers of the Omo River and Lake Turkana Valley to replace them with super-irrigation plantations.

Eight Eastern Africa governments under their umbrella organization IGAD have been urged to ensure tenure security for customary land rights because it is an essential element for sustainable development.

A land grab twice the size of France is under way in Ethiopia, as the government pursues the seizure of indigenous lands to turn them over to dams and plantations.

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

En Ethiopie, les déplacements forcés et la déportation des peuples indigènes de leurs terres ancestraux suscitent de plus en plus de critiques et de plaintes judiciaires.

Internal watchdog finds link between World Bank financing and Ethiopian government's mass resettlement of indigenous group

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”

Forest regions and local livelihoods under threat as palm oil producers looking for new agricultural land are welcomed by African governments

Kenyans near world’s largest desert lake predict conflict, hunger and cultural devastation when hydroelectric project and sugar plantations are completed.