Karuturi Agro Products Plc has refuted reports that the company subleased farm land to Indian farmers, claiming instead that the Indian farmers were hired solely for consultancy services.
Ethiopia's state project to make it into one of the world's top sugar producers requires the resettling of semi-nomadic herders in permanent villages, where they can work on sugar plantations.
Indian author and media commentator Anand Giridharadas joins this Al Jazeera programme along with Oakland Institute’s Executive Director, Anuradha Mittal, and Christine L. Adamow, Managing Director of Africa BioFuel, a US company invested in farmland in Kenya and Tanzania.
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Short video documentary about a massive takeover of agricultural lands in the Gambela Region of Ethiopia.
The Ethiopian government has miserably failed to engage and convince citizens about the present and long-term implications of farmland grabbing.
For Gambellans who live as pastoralist and subsistence farmers, massive dispossession and auctioning off their land for pennies will inevitably destroy the very fabric of their society and way of life and threaten them with extinction.
The Ministry of Agriculture has signed a 23.7 million Br land lease contract with Toren Agri Plc, a Turkish company, for large scale production of cotton at its head quarters at Asmera road
The Ethiopian Ministry of Agriculture plans to conduct a media tour accompanied by officials next week in Gambela to increase public awareness surrounding land grabbing issues.
Pour expliquer la crise alimentaire dans la Corne de l'Afrique, on évoque la sécheresse, l'instabilité politique, le manque d'efficacité des systèmes d'alerte... Qu'en est-il de l'impact de l'accaparement des terres ?
Karuturi Global is looking at outsourcing 20,000 hectares of farm land in the African nation to Indian farmers on a revenue-sharing basis.
Obtaining millions of hectares for farming in Africa, Indian firms are playing predator.
