Les expulsés avaient trouvé en la ministre de la Population, Nadine Ramaroson, une défenseuse acharnée.

  Äthiopische Blumen landen vor allem in Europa. REUTERS

Nyikaw Ochalla arbeitet für die "Anuak Survival Organisation" und setzt sich gegen das Verpachten des Landes an fremde Staaten und Konzerne ein.

Landgrabbing, also die großflächige Landnahme durch andere Staaten oder Konzerne, stellt für die äthiopische Bevölkerung eine große Bedrohung dar.

Ven Sovath Luon: leading struggle of poor farmers

Harar, Ethiopia (Source: Give-on)

Villagers living in the Yala Swamp area, Kenya protesting against Dominion Farms (Photo: Kick Dominion Farms out of Yala)

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Water and food scarcity are already major problems in East Africa. Land grabbing is essentially exporting these scarce natural resources to other countries. (Photo: Ikal Angelei)

Millions in Ethiopia have been affected by an ongoing drought, yet the government is practically giving away arable land to outside investors. (Photo: Kimberly Flowers/USAID)

According to the World Bank, the “land rush” is not likely to slow. As a result, the landless labour population will grow, leading to greater unrest in the rural areas of developing countries.

Brazil's cerrado region

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Omo Valley (Photo: National Geographic)

Investors like New Silk Route, Baring Asia and C. Sivasankaran hold over a 25% stake in KS Oils.

Diego Rivera's painting "Gloriosa Victoria", portraying the US intervention in Guatemala.

Dairy farmers protesting in front of Romanian Parliament, June 2009 (Photo:AFP).

A Karo woman eating sugracane, Korcho village. The Karo live on the east banks of the Omo River in south Ethiopia, one of the areas being targetted by the Ethiopian government for largescale sugarcane plantations (Photo: Eric Lafforgue).

Farm Lands of Guinea, Inc. contrôle plus de 100 000 hectares de terres agricoles en Guinée

FLG a payé d’avance des baux de 99 ans sur plus de 100 000 hectares de terres arables.