Ethiopia

Land grabbing did not disappear when the headlines faded. Across the world, corporations, investors and states continue to reshape control over land and resources, often through quieter, normalized processes.

The Commissioner of the Gambella Regional State Investment Commission says the 14,000 ha rice project’s pace has not matched initial expectations despite its status as a flagship commercial rice initiative.

In Sudan and Ethiopia, Gulf capital has targeted large-scale agricultural estates, livestock production, and agro-processing, often through joint ventures with local elites or state authorities.

A Swiss company called ASC Impact GmbH is developing a tree planting project in the Gambela region of Ethiopia covering a total area of 27,500 hectares, with about 20,000 hectares to be planted with eucalyptus and acacia trees.

Une société d'investissement de Saint-Gall, en Suisse, promet de concilier protection du climat, aide au développement et rendement financier grâce à un projet en Éthiopie. Mais une communauté locale tire la sonnette d'alarme.

A Swiss-based investment firm promises to combine climate protection, development aid, and returns with a plantation project in Ethiopia. But a local community is raising the alarm

In Ethiopia and Mauritania, reports from community organizations highlight tensions where Elite Agro projects have displaced smallholders or restricted traditional grazing lands.

Germany's largest fertiliser company invests in German fund pursuing large-scale agriculture and forestry projects for carbon credits in Africa.

Pharo Ventures has acquired 1,000 hectares of fertile land in Tum Woreda of the Southwest Region of Ethiopia in 2024 and is pursuing contract farming of sesame with 220 farmers in Dima Woreda and Koy Kebele in the Gambela Region.

En Éthiopie, la société britannique de capital-investissement Asset Green a signé un accord avec l’Ethiopian Investment Holdings et l’Ethiopian Agricultural Business Corporation pour réaliser un projet intégré de production laitière et de cultures commerciales (15 000 ha)

The Ethiopian Investment Holdings and Agricultural Works Corporation signed a 600 million USD shareholders agreement to jointly invest in a 15,000 ha Integrated Dairy and Commercial Farming Project with the United Kingdom’s Asset Green Company.

Ethiopia’s hopes of ushering in a new era of commercial farming ventures rested in large part on the shoulders of the Gambella Regional State. Recent years have seen hundreds of investors granted licenses and credit to establish commercial farms in the southwestern corner of the country, but little has come from the efforts.