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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
Africa's great land grab
- BBC
- 27 October 2010
Recent years have seen an increasing number of foreign governments acquiring vast tracts of land in Africa for their own use - some say with little or no benefit to Africa.
Land grabbing – a killing blow to the fight against poverty in Africa
- APA
- 27 October 2010
Oxfam concerned that land grabbing not being addressed adequately and with enough of a sense of urgency.
The 40-year food outlook
- Daily Reckoning
- 27 October 2010
Farmland is a compelling way to capitalize on the coming bull market in agricultural commodities, but it’s a high-risk proposition.
Ethiopia plans to rent out Belgium-sized land area to produce cash crops
- Bloomberg
- 26 October 2010
“If we get money [from renting out our land] we can buy food anywhere. Then we can solve [Ethiopia's] food problem,” says Abera Deressa, minister of state for agriculture
Defending the commons, territories and the right to food and water
- LRAN
- 26 October 2010
LRAN briefing paper series, October 2010
German investment funds involved in land grabbing
- FIAN
- 25 October 2010
Report provides detailed information about investment opportunities in land grabbing offered to German private and institutional investors.
Food security - Unlocking Africa’s vast agricultural potential
- AfDB
- 25 October 2010
In lead up to Tunis Conference, African Development Bank calls for reforms to African land laws to facilitate private investment in agriculture.
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.
The struggle to prevent land grabbing and forest destruction in Indonesia
- TNI
- 25 October 2010
Interview with Elisha Kartini of the Indonesian Peasant Union
Río Negro, Argentina: Saiz signed with China to provide food for 20 years
- La Nación
- 25 October 2010
Río Negro's governor has signed off 320,000 ha to China's Beida Yuang for the production of soybean, wheat and rape, for shipment to China, over the next 20 years
Funds: Up on the farm
- BNE
- 25 October 2010
GAIA and others see the most leverage for investment returns coming from emerging market regions like Brazil, Russia, Ukraine and Kazakhstan due to low valuations, low costs of production and low land values.