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9 March 2010Sebuah investigasi Observer menunjukkan bagaimana negara-negara kaya mendapatkan jaminan untuk memenuhi kebutuhan warganya, dengan memanfaatkan lahan seluas dua kali lipat daratan Inggris. Dan, lahan tersebut berada di Afrika, kawasan yang identik dengan kekurangan pangan. Guardian melaporkan hasil investigasi tersebut pada hari Senin.
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7 March 2010An Observer investigation reveals how rich countries faced by a global food shortage now farm an area double the size of the UK to guarantee supplies for their citizens
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2 March 2010GRAIN a discuté avec Nyilaw Ochalla afin de mieux comprendre les conséquences pour les Anuak et les autres communautés locales de la nouvelle vague d’acquisitions de terres en Éthiopie.
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2 March 2010GRAIN speaks with Nyikaw Ochalla, an Anuak living in exile, about the consequences for the Anuak and other local communities from the land grabs happening in Gambella province and the rest of Ethiopia.
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1 March 2010Première destination l'Ethiopie, l’un des pays où cette question se pose avec beaucoup d’acuité. Deuxième destination la Chine qui a un grand besoin de nouvelles terres. Troisième destination Madagascar, où le projet d’achat de terre par Daewoo a été complètement abandonné.
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25 February 2010"What they are saying is that the local people are now suffering very badly as a direct result of these foreign companies taking over."
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25 February 2010"Today, the Oromo issue is not hidden from the world leaders and stakeholders. However, it is being ignored. The Meles regime is selling Oromo land on world market, although this government does not have the right to sell Oromo land."
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22 February 2010"What Karuturi is doing is what Africa needs, wants and deserves," says Ram Karuturi. Yet 400 Ethiopians have signed a petition saying they received no compensation after being evicted from land taken over by Karuturi.
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21 February 2010Saudi Star Agricultural Development Plc, the newest food growing company formed by Mohammed Hussein Ali Al-Amoudi, is to acquire 100,000sqm of land in Bishoftu (Debre Zeit) this week, its senior official disclosed.
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15 February 2010Runaway farmland and borderland giveaway deals need to be publicly scrutinized to ensure transparency (detect corruption and criminality) and to make certain that private interests (sweetheart deals) have not overtaken the public interest, or secret deals are not made to harm the Ethiopian national interest.
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9 February 2010Standard Chartered Bank's Africa private equity arm and a unit of Reliance Capital are in talks to invest in Dubai-based Karuturi Overseas.
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4 February 2010Ethiopia must harness its enormous agricultural potential, not by selling it off as a cheap commodity, but by supporting farmers in growing culturally appropriate crops for domestic markets, using agro-ecologically sustainable farming methods.
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31 January 2010The main objective of this essay is to draw the attention of fellow Ethiopians to the issue. So that it stays front and center in our contemporary political agenda, until we manage to mobilize the necessary popular pressure and try our best to stop it from taking effect.
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30 January 2010As swathes of their country’s land is leased, cleared and prepared for food production by foreign companies, Ethiopians are divided over whether this constitutes ‘agro-colonialism’ or much-needed development
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27 January 2010Heightened land values have caused several Egyptian banks, private companies and government bodies to purchase agricultural land in Africa, in addition to focusing greater attention on Egypt’s land resources.
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26 January 2010How could Meles know the legitimate owners of the land, namely the future generation of Ethiopians, may not need the land say 20 years from now?
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19 January 2010Accaparement des terres - cas de l'Ethiopie - par AGTER
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16 January 2010Ruchi Soya Industries, one of the leading edible oil processors, on Friday announced a major farm land acquisition in Ethiopia for soybean cultivation.
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15 January 2010Karuturi believes the potential for large profits is so great that it plans to invest nearly $1bn in its Ethiopian agricultural operations
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14 January 2010Private equity fund Agri-Vie will reach its $100 million target for investment in agricultural projects in Africa by March, and could triple it in a second fund