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07 Mar 2011Yale e360
Agribusiness boom threatens key African wildlife migration
Karuturi's 15 John Deere tractors plough 500 hectares a day on its 300,000 land concession in the Gambella region of Ethiopia. This is land clearance on a gigantic scale.
17 Feb 2011Afrik News
Silence over Ethiopian land grab broken
Land grabbing poses no harm on the environment or on the local community, says Saudi billionaire Sheik Mohammed Hussein Al-Amoudi who is seeking to expand his farmland in Ethiopia from 10,000 hectares to 250,000 hectares.
15 Dec 2010BBC
Land grab fears for Ethiopian rural communities
A controversial new farms policy has led to a number of arrests and the killings of 10 local farmers, say local activists.
25 Nov 2010
Ethiopia: Land rent contractual agreement made between Ministry of Agriculture and Saudi Star Agricultural Development PLC
Covers 10,000 ha in Gambela Regional State for the production of rice, for an initial period of 50 years, with option for renewal.
10 Jul 2010ASO
Produire du riz ou investir dans la région de Gambela : la vidéo de propagande du gouvernement éthiopien
La voix de l’Anywaa Survival Organisation s’est élevée contre la politique de cession des terres adoptée par le gouvernement éthiopien.
10 Jul 2010ASO
Rice Production or Investment in Gambela region, Ethiopian government's propaganda video
Anywaa Survival Organisation's critique of the Ethiopian government's video presentation of rice land grab in the Gambela region.
21 Feb 2010Addis Fortune
Saudi Star to swallow 100,000sqm of Bishoftu land
Saudi 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.
10 Dec 2009Wikileaks
Wikileaks: Ethiopia seeks dramatic change in agricultural land use
"This apparent rush to lease so much farmland, much or all of it to foreign interests, during a time of worsening food insecurity should raise concern within the donor community about GoE motivations and negotiating capacity," writes the US embassy in Addis Ababa in December 2009
07 Dec 2009Addis Fortune
Al-Amoudi solicits additional arable land
Al-Amoudi's recently established Saudi Star Agricultural Development Plc requested, two weeks ago, an additional 250,000 ha of land in Ethiopia for sugar beet production.
03 Dec 2009Ethiomedia
Full circle: Back to the 'Land to the Tiller': Implications of the land grab in Ethiopia
Ethiopia's potential can be maximized only if we Ethiopians are the producers and sellers of our own agricultural products. What Meles Zenawi is doing now is putting this upside down. He made our potential buyers the sellers of our commodity.
24 Nov 2009Addis Fortune
Al-Amoudi’s efforts to initiate Saudi agro investments
Sources close to Al-Amoudi said that the king has shown an interest in seeing other Saudi companies involved in rice farming after seeing the samples presented by Al-Amoudi
14 Sep 2009Addis Fortune
Al Amoudi’s hunt for arable land swells to half a million hectares
Sheik Mohammed Hussein Ali Al Amoudi, the second richest person in Saudi Arabia, is preparing to farm cereals on hundreds of thousands of hectares of Ethiopian land for export to Saudi Arabia
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