Ethiopia

8 Miles invests in Ethiopian agribusiness Verde Beef
- Alt Assets
- 25 April 2016
Africa-focused private equity firm 8 Miles has picked up “a significant minority stake” in Ethiopian agribusiness Verde Beef Processing.
Chinese engagement in African agriculture is not what it seems
- The Conversation
- 28 Mar 2016
The Chinese role in agriculture – in terms of business investment, technology transfer, demonstration efforts, training and more – is growing, and shaping perceptions.
Ethiopia body suspends farm lease programme after poor results
- Reuters
- 25 Mar 2016
An Ethiopian state body that has been involved in leasing tracts of land for commercial farming has suspended the issuance of new licences until it completes a review because of scant progress in developing areas leased so far, an official said.
Agency quits offering land for large scale agricultural investments
- Walta Info
- 23 Mar 2016
The Ethiopian Agriculture Investment and Land Administration Agency has given up offering land for large scale agricultural investments for an unspecified time.
Ethiopian pastor pays the penalty for speaking out
- HRW
- 15 Mar 2016
A year ago today, Ethiopian security forces arrested Pastor Omot Agwa and six colleagues at Addis Ababa’s Bole Airport on their way to a food security workshop and took them to the notorious Maekelawi police station, where torture is routine.
Stop the criminalization of environmental and human rights defenders! Free Ethiopian political prisoners!
- ASO et al.
- 15 Mar 2016
One year after their arrest on March 15, 2015, three food, land, and human rights defenders continue to languish in an Ethiopian jail on the spurious charge of “terrorism”.
Failing to address land rights violations caused by its own programs, the World Bank launches its 17th Conference on Land and Poverty
- Oakland Institute
- 14 Mar 2016
World Bank organizes costly conferences on land governance while overlooking the forced relocation of farmers and indigenous people resulting from its policies and programs.
Are China and Brazil transforming African agriculture?
- Zimbabweland
- 07 Mar 2016
A new Open Access Special Issue in World Development based on our work on the changing role of China and Brazil in Africa’s agriculture is now available
The great land rush
- Financial Times
- 01 Mar 2016
FT correspondents report on the global race for land from Ethiopia, Myanmar and Indonesia.
Gambella evicts local investors from leased lands
- Fortune
- 29 February 2016
Nearly 100 commercial farming investors in Gambella are losing thousands of hectares of land because the region leased, by mistake, lands under federal jurisdiction.
Scholars, activists & farmers join in Harare to address rural social justice
- AIAS
- 18 February 2016
The African Institute for Agrarian Studies brought Southern scholars, activists, practitioners, and farmers to Harare, Zimbabwe to learn from each other’s work and experiences to advance social justice projects for the rural global South.
How investment treaties protect 'land grab' deals
- IIED
- 17 February 2016
New research examining the geographical coverage of international investment treaties raises concern about how they might affect public action to address 'land grabbing'.