Ethiopia

Karuturi eyes $150M fundraise for Africa push
- VC Circle
- 07 July 2010
Private equity firms like Rabo Equity Advisors and IL&FS Investment Managers may be in talks with Karuturi.
Press release from the London International Oromo Workshop
- LIOW
- 03 July 2010
Participants denounced land grabbing and agreed to co-ordinate their efforts globally to campaign to STOP the irresponsible greedy practice by the transnational conglomerates.
Ethiopia offers an acre for $1 on 100-year lease
- Hindu Business Line
- 25 June 2010
Dr S. Ayyappan, Director-General of the Indian Council for Agricultural Research (ICAR), calls on Indians to rent farmland in Ethiopia to produce pulses for export to India.
Ethiopia: Fertile fields for India
- Asia-Africa Confidential
- 25 June 2010
The Addis government shows scant regard for the potential local impact of massive Indian investment in floriculture and biofuels.
Karuturi Global on Ethiopian plans
- NDTV
- 16 June 2010
Sai R Karuturi, founder and MD of Karuturi Global, says the company has acquired a very large piece of land in Ethiopia and has started agricultural production from it.
Indian companies get into commercial farming in Africa
- Economic Times
- 13 June 2010
Indian tea companies, among others, are making a beeline to acquire estates in Africa. And the government is facilitating their hunt for good deals.
Karuturi Global on Ethiopian plans
- NDTV
- 07 June 2010
"Personally, I believe that in five years or in ten years time I would like to be seen and compared with peers such as Cargill or the Archer Daniels of the world or the Bunges of the world."
London International Oromo Workshop: The scramble for land, ‘investment’ and environmental degradation in Oromia
- Gadaa.com
- 06 June 2010
This one-day multidisciplinary workshop will examine the scale of the problem and the environmental degradation, economic, social and health problems facing the Oromo people as the result of the farmland wholesale to foreign investors and will aim to formulate a consensus on how to mitigate its burden on the Oromo people.
I privati della terra
- il manifesto
- 06 June 2010
La corsa alle terre d’Etiopia è il fenomeno che coinvolge tutta l’Africa.
Saudis invest heavily in Ethiopian farm sector
- Arab News
- 29 May 2010
"Agricultural lands being leased by Saudis have been increasing by the day in Ethiopia," Ethiopian Consul General Tekleab Kebede says.
L’Etiopia ridotta alla fame dà cibo ai ricchi Paesi arabi
- Avvenire
- 23 May 2010
Con una dozzina di grandi laghi, altrettanti corsi d’acqua principali e oltre 3,5 milioni di ettari di terra irrigata, l’Etiopia è il «sogno blu» per gli investitori dell’arido Golfo arabo.
Ethiopia: Land rent contractual agreement made between Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development and BHO Bio Products PLC
- 11 May 2010
Contract covers the lease of 27,000 ha in the Regional State of Gambela for a period of 25 years, with option for renewal.