Ethiopia

"Colonialist, imperialist and criminal"
- Slow Food
- 21 October 2010
“We should be supporting our own farmers and letting Africans cultivate their own land in their own way," says Slow Food President.
Egypt’s conundrum over food security and the Nile’s water
- Afrik News
- 14 October 2010
The Egyptian external agricultural land deals are all the more fragile as a future government or policy change in Ethiopia or Sudan risks destabilizing their external food security strategy.
May raise Rs 450cr through PE investors: Karuturi Global
- CNBC
- 14 October 2010
Ramesh Krishnaswamy of Karuturi Global in an exclusive interview with CNBC-TV18
Indian firm leases Gambella plot for rice
- Addis Fortune
- 11 October 2010
Sannati Agro Farm Enterprise Plc received a 10,000ht plot of land in Dimi District, Gambella Region, for the cultivation of rice, pulses, and cereals, from the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development on October 1, 2010.
Egypt: Seeking to grow cereals on African farmland
- IRIN
- 11 October 2010
EPRDF banks on outsourcing food production
- Africa Intelligence
- 09 October 2010
Addis Abaaba has decided to withdraw from the regional governments the right of attributing leases of over 1,000 ha. However, the 2010 federal budget lists no income whatsoever, and no information on this subject appears in the quarterly reports of the National Bank of Ethiopia.
Ethiopian case study illustrates shortcomings of “land grab” debate
- The New Security Beat
- 06 October 2010
The two months we spent in the Amhara and Oromia regions of Ethiopia, surveying smallholders and profiling large-scale commercial farms, left us with a different impression.
Ethiopia: Land rent contractual agreement made between Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development and Sannati Agro Farm PLC
- 01 October 2010
Contract is for 10,000 ha in the Regional State of Gambela for a period of 25 years, with option for renewal.
An Open Letter to Gennet Zewide, Ethiopian Ambassador to India
- Anyuak Media
- 30 September 2010
The people of Ethiopia have a question for you and the government of Ethiopia you represent, “Why are you giving away our land to foreigners?”
Punjab farmers to acquire 50,000 hectares of land in Ethiopia
- PTI
- 17 September 2010
Punjab-based farmers are set to acquire 50,000 ha of farm land on lease in Ethiopia for growing high-value cash crops, including pulses and maize, for export to India and Europe.
Ethiopians say Indians grabbing land, Indian farmers claim it is official
- Tehelka
- 17 September 2010
Tensions against Indian companies acquiring farmland in Ethiopia are mounting, according to Tehelka
Unprecedented land grabbing and destruction of ecological environment in Gambela, Ethiopia
- ASO
- 08 September 2010
Anywaa Survival Organisation would like to call upon indigenous people to resist this kind of land grabbing effort of the Ethiopian government, now acknowledged by a World Bank report