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Sreelatha Menon: Bloodied pulses
- Business Standard
- 16 February 2013
If there is “blood diamond”, there is also such a thing as “blood maize”, “blood soya” and “blood pulses”.
Global land grabs on Valentine’s Day at IATP
- 14 February 2013
Video of the seminar on global land grabs and food sovereignty featuring Alexandra Spieldoch, Jim Harkness of IATP and Redwan Hamaza of the Oromia Human Rights and Justice Council.
Ethiopians 'driven out in land grabs'
- UPI
- 08 February 2013
Thousands of Ethiopians are being driven off their ancestral land that the government's selling without their consent to foreign investors buying up vast swathes of farmland, a U.S. watchdog reports.
Indian investors are forcing Ethiopians off their land
- Guardian
- 07 February 2013
Thousands of Ethiopians are being relocated or have already fled as their land is sold off to foreign investors without their consent.
Indian companies' investments in Ethiopia displace people: Activists
- Business Standard
- 06 February 2013
Indian companies that have invested in agriculture in Ethiopia are under fire from civil society groups. The companies have been accused of large-scale land grabbing, which has led to displacement of the tribal population there.
“Unheard voices” speak out
- Oakland Institute
- 05 February 2013
Indigenous Ethiopians demand a stop to human rights abuses stemming from agricultural investment policies
No land grabbing by Indian firms in Africa: Centre
- The Hindu
- 31 January 2013
Faced with reports of land grabbing by Indian companies in some African countries, especially Ethiopia, the government says the Indian companies have taken land on lease as per rules of the country concerned.
L’accaparement des terres ou comment la loi expulse les gens de leurs terres
- Afriques en lutte
- 25 January 2013
En définissant comme "intérêt national" ou "bien national" des projets de développement liés à la terre, qui ne respectent pas la notion du droit au développement, qui génèrent des migrations et aboutissent à des violations inextricables des droits fondamentaux de la population et des communautés locales, les Etats abusent du pouvoir qui leur est octroyé aussi bien par la communauté nationale qu’internationale.
La riposte des paysans éthiopiens
- RTBF
- 25 January 2013
Des paysans éthiopiens, chassés de leurs terres au profit de grands projets agricoles, attaquent en justice la Coopération au développement britannique.
Convention on the great land grab saga in Ethiopia and India
- Oakland Institute
- 23 January 2013
A day-long conference will be held on Feb. 6, 2013 at the India International Centre, New Delhi to deliberate on the ongoing land takeover in India and in African countries like Ethiopia by Indian companies.
Ethiopia's resettlement scheme leaves lives shattered and UK facing questions
- Guardian
- 22 January 2013
A 'villagisation' programme that has been linked to the leasing of large tracts of land for commercial agriculture has left people from Ethiopia's Gambella region bereft of land and loved ones, casting donor support in an unflattering light
Ethiopia made in China : La course au land-grabbing
- Rue88
- 08 January 2013
L’Inde, autre puissante émergente, a elle-aussi pigé l’aubaine des appels du pied de Zenawi. Mais plutôt que de miser sur la production manufacturière où il est difficile de concurrencer l’atelier chinois, New Delhi s’est rabattu sur le gâteau agricole.