The Ethiopian government is forcibly displacing indigenous pastoral communities inEthiopia’s Lower Omo valley without adequate consultation or compensation to make way for state-run sugar plantations, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today.
Le gouvernement éthiopien exproprie de force des communautés d'éleveurs autochtones dans la basse vallée de l'Omo, a déclaré Human Rights Watch dans un rapport publié aujourd'hui.
An Egyptian model farm is to be created in Ethiopia on an area of some 500 feddans [210 ha] with the potential for expansion in the regional state of Afar some 600 kilometres north of Addis Ababa.
- Egyptian Gazette
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14 June 2012
The company has approached the African Development Bank, the African Export-Import Bank and the Eastern and Southern African Trade and Development Bank to raise another $100 million for a sugarcane estate.
GRAIN looks behind the current scramble for land in Africa to reveal a global struggle for what is increasingly seen as a commodity more precious than gold or oil - water.
Despite the lucrative returns that foreign investors can achieve by investing in African agriculture, the on-the-ground realities of operating in the continent is often less rosy.
- HowWeMadeItInAfrica
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09 June 2012
Uno de los países analizados en este informe es Etiopía, donde los campesinos de la provincia de Gambela han sido forzados a instalarse en aldeas pre-designadas por el Estado, facilitando así el camino a los acaparadores de tierra. Gambela es la región más pobre de Etiopía.
- Global Voices
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07 June 2012
Die Gesellschaft für bedrohte Völker (GfbV) protestiert gemeinsam mit Äthiopiern am Mittwoch in Köln vor der ersten Deutsch-Äthiopischen Wirtschaftskonferenz gegen Landraub und die Vertreibung von Ureinwohnern sowie Kleinbauern in Äthiopien.
Major agricultural investor in Ethiopia, Saudi Star, has bigger problems there than it might have expected.
- African Agriculture
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06 June 2012
Karuturi, which has 300,000 ha in Ethiopia, is now targeting the DRC, Tanzania, Mozambique, Senegal and Sierra Leone.
- Business World
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02 June 2012
Trilogy Capital is involved in a large scale agriculture project in Ethiopia with US-based Morrell Agro Industries.
- HowWeMadeItInAfrica
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30 May 2012
La risposta dell'Alto Rappresentante solleva non poche obiezioni
