Karuturi Global Ltd

African land, up for grabs
- Anyuak Media
- 27 Mar 2011
A land grab is taking place all across Africa, a transfer of control unprecedented in the post-colonial era.
Ethiopia: The great land-grab debate
- IRIN
- 25 Mar 2011
Foreign investors are leasing vast tracts of land in Ethiopia
Land Grabs: What’s in the contracts? And an Indian land grab In Ethiopia
- CounterCurrents
- 25 Mar 2011
One of the problems with so-called ‘land grabs’ is secrecy. Most of the contracts that seal such deals are hidden from public scrutiny, which makes it very hard to establish what is really going on.
Agribusiness boom threatens key African wildlife migration
- Yale e360
- 07 Mar 2011
Karuturi's 15 John Deere tractors plough 500 hectares a day on its 300,000 land concession in the Gambella region of Ethiopia. This is land clearance on a gigantic scale.
Le bradage des terres arables en Éthiopie
- Daily Motion
- 18 February 2011
Documentaire sur l'accacparement de terres en Ethiopie
Ethiopia offers India farmland for investment
- Economic Times
- 02 February 2011
Ethiopia has offered 1.8 million hectares of its farmland to Indian investors that equals nearly 40 percent of the total area of the principal grain-growing state of Punjab.
Siva buys into Karuturi Global
- Times of India
- 07 December 2010
Indian businessman also has major stakes in farmland investors Ruchi Soya, KS Oils and Equitorial Palm Oil.
Coup d'accélérateur indien
- Jeune Afrique
- 30 November 2010
Bloqué par des difficultés d’acquisition de terres en Inde, le groupe Karuturi s’est tourné vers l’Afrique et a acheté ses premières parcelles en Éthiopie en 2004. Depuis, ses revenus ont été multipliés par onze, pour atteindre plus de 110 millions de dollars.
Karuturi Global eyes East African markets for crops grown on Ethiopia land
- Bloomberg
- 12 November 2010
Karuturi has an agreement to provide 40,000 tons of rice to neighboring Djibouti.
Response to Karuturi CEO on his Ethiopia land grab
- SMNE
- 10 November 2010
If what is going on in Gambella was happening in New Delhi, India; in Oxford, England; in Bismarck, North Dakota; in Saskatoon, Canada; this would be unthinkable.
Karuturi tractors make big splash On Bole Road
- Horizon Ethiopia
- 28 October 2010
Karuturi is perhaps the poster child for the big land grabs that have characterized large scale agricultural investment in Ethiopia
Land rent contractual agreement made between Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development and Karuturi Agro Products PLC
- Ethiopian Government
- 25 October 2010
50yr lease agreement between Ethiopian government and India's Karuturi covering an initial 100,000 ha in Gambela. Contract enables Karuturi to extend concession by another 200,000 ha.