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Guardian News & Media27 Aug 10UNCTAD believes pension funds, with their apparent focus on reputation, accountability, and the long term, could set new best-practice standards as they join the farmland investment trend.
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Afrik News26 Aug 10Gambela’s new tag as a land grabbing hub comes as BHO Agro Plc becomes the third Indian firm to begin operations in the region after two other Indian companies, Karuturi and Ruchi Group, moved into Gambela in 2008 and early 2010, respectively.
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Reuters24 Aug 10African governments need to raise their level of accountability and ensure that they improve and protect their own food security through quid pro quo side-agreements negotiated when they lease or sell their arable land to foreign interests, says Keith Mullin of Thompson Reuters
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Maclean's19 Aug 10Africa, where one in three people is malnourished, is now growing tomatoes and butter lettuce for export.
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PTI11 Aug 10ASSOCHAM, India's apex industry body, has sent a proposal to the external affairs ministry offering to act as facilitator to help Indian farmers get farmland in Africa.
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GRAIN13 Jul 10Interviews about the current land grab in the Oromia and Gambela regions with some of the presenters at the London workshop.
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Sikh Sangat News11 Jul 10A group of farmers from Punjab are planning to take 1 lakh hectare land on lease in the African nation of Ethiopia for cultivation.
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ASO10 Jul 10La voix de l’Anywaa Survival Organisation s’est élevée contre la politique de cession des terres adoptée par le gouvernement éthiopien.
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ASO10 Jul 10 Anywaa Survival Organisation's critique of the Ethiopian government's video presentation of rice land grab in the Gambela region.
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RFI07 Jul 10Près de 300 investisseurs étrangers cherchent à obtenir de la terre en Ethiopie. Qui sont ces nouveaux arrivants, quels sont les bénéfices pour les paysans locaux et pour l’Etat éthiopien ?
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VC Circle07 Jul 10Private equity firms like Rabo Equity Advisors and IL&FS Investment Managers may be in talks with Karuturi.
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LIOW03 Jul 10Participants denounced land grabbing and agreed to co-ordinate their efforts globally to campaign to STOP the irresponsible greedy practice by the transnational conglomerates.
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Hindu BusinessLine25 Jun 10Dr S. Ayyappan, Director-General of the Indian Council for Agricultural Research (ICAR), calls on Indians to rent farmland in Ethiopia to produce pulses for export to India.
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Asia-Africa Confidential25 Jun 10The Addis government shows scant regard for the potential local impact of massive Indian investment in floriculture and biofuels.
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NDTV16 Jun 10Sai R Karuturi, founder and MD of Karuturi Global, says the company has acquired a very large piece of land in Ethiopia and has started agricultural production from it.
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Economic Times13 Jun 10Indian tea companies, among others, are making a beeline to acquire estates in Africa. And the government is facilitating their hunt for good deals.
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Gadaa.com06 Jun 10This one-day multidisciplinary workshop will examine the scale of the problem and the environmental degradation, economic, social and health problems facing the Oromo people as the result of the farmland wholesale to foreign investors and will aim to formulate a consensus on how to mitigate its burden on the Oromo people.
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il manifesto06 Jun 10La corsa alle terre d’Etiopia è il fenomeno che coinvolge tutta l’Africa.
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Arab News29 May 10"Agricultural lands being leased by Saudis have been increasing by the day in Ethiopia," Ethiopian Consul General Tekleab Kebede says.
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Avvenire23 May 10Con una dozzina di grandi laghi, altrettanti corsi d’acqua principali e oltre 3,5 milioni di ettari di terra irrigata, l’Etiopia è il «sogno blu» per gli investitori dell’arido Golfo arabo.