Ethiopia at centre of land grab

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It’s the deal of the century: £150 a week to lease more than 2,500 sq km (1,000 sq miles) of virgin, fertile land — an area the size of Dorset — for 50 years. Bangalore-based food company Karuturi Global says it had not even seen the land when it was offered by the Ethiopian government with tax breaks thrown in. http://ecadforum.com

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This is not Ethiopia

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Published on Jan 28, 2013

Woyane invites Ethiopian citizens abroad to invest in the country to control the struggle with remote control. As much Woyane needs money from the Diaspora, the people need more of its freedom. But Woyane cannot give an ounce of freedom to question authority implementing democracy in the country. You can witness in this video in the free world called America when they try to take your freedom of speech. Imagine what they had been and still doing to the 80 million Ethiopians at home.

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Why do you oppress the people

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Ethiopian Man Challenges Investment Invitation to the Diaspora by the Regime

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Published on Nov 1, 2012

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An archive video of an Ethiopian Patriot challenging the Amhara Zone Delegation lead by Demeke Mekonen, the current Deputy Prime Minister, to Atlanta. The patriot highlights the lies, deceit and injustice being committed by the regime in the guise of getting the Diaspora to invest in Ethiopia.

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Ethiopia – The Land of Lucrative Investment

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The Multinational Corporations Stealing Huge Tracts Of Ethiopian Farmland

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Ethiopia land grab displacing thousands

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In Ethiopia, one of the hungriest countries in the world, small farmers and communities are being moved off their land as international agribusinesses take over large swathes of fertile farmland.

Over the last three years an area the size of Britain has been handed over to corporations to make way for large-scale industrial farming in Ethiopia. With cheap rates and incentives, companies are pouring in to the exploit the land the government has cleared of its people. Many of the displaced are too scared to complain:”what power do we have to stop them? We just stay silent”, says one farmer. Despite promises of a better life, many Ethiopians are being left within nothing. Ethiopian Farm Minister, Wondirad Mandefro, shrugs: “they have to abandon their previous way of life”.

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Land Grab – Zimbabwe

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March 1998
President Mugabe wanted to take back 1/3 of all Zimbabwe’s productive farmland from white farmers and give it to the country’s peasants. In 1998, a mere 4,500 wealthy whites owned a staggering 50% of Zimbabwe, and Mugabe says they had until August that year to give that land back.

As Europe sats down with African leaders in Cairo in March 1998, Zimbabwe’s colonial hangover will be taking centre stage. Land was an issue throughout Zimbabwe’s rocky transition to Independence. But when it came, Mugabe was generous to the whites – allowing them to stay on. Indeed it was his anti-racism policies that won him favour. Now many feel he is trying to divert criticism about corruption in government by pushing through land reform that will see black farmers re-settled onto land seized by the British colonialists. The whites say it’s State-sanctioned robbery – but the government says that’s exactly what the white man did.

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Answers to the global food crisis

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Uploaded on Nov 18, 2010

Anuradha Mittal, Oakland Institute, California talks about Finance and Hunger: Speculation on Food and (Mis)Investment in Agriculture (Land Grabbing)

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101 East – Cambodia land grab – 24 July 08

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Uploaded on Jul 24, 2008

Cambodia — a country seemingly up for sale. Investors are flooding an unregulated property market, driving tens of thousands from their homes.

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As The Planet Warms, Scientists Say More People Will Go Without Food And Water

by Emily Atkin Posted on July 28, 2014 at 12:14 pm

A farmer walks past his dried-up wheat cropland at Liuhe village in Tongzhou district in Beijing, China on Sunday, Feb. 8, 2009.

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Right now, in China’s Henan and Inner Mongolia regions, more than 300,000 people are without drinking water. Approximately 1 million hectares of farmland are too dry to work with, and more than 900,000 hectares of crops are unusable.

The reason for this increased lack of food and water is extreme heat and drought — the worst drought in 40 years, according to China’s state news agency Xinhua. Mainstay crops such as soybeans, barley, and rice have been impacted. And it’s not just in China, either.

According to two new studies published in the journals Nature Climate Change and Global Change Biology, rising global temperatures are increasingly harming crop yields in certain areas of the world — a phenomenon that could eventually lead to more famine. Warming combined with worsening air quality from ground level ozone pollution could exacerbate the problem even further, the study in Nature showed.

“Future food production is highly vulnerable to both climate change and air pollution with implications for global food security,” the Nature study, published Sunday by researchers at MIT, reads. “Little is known about how climate and ozone pollution interact to affect agriculture, nor the relative effectiveness of these two strategies for different crops and regions.”

Ground level ozone pollution is the main component of smog, primarily formed by burning fossil fuels. It’s long been known that both higher temperatures and ozone pollution can, on their own, impact food production by damaging crop yields. But until the MIT study, how they work together had not been determined.

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