Land grab fears for Ethiopian rural communities
    15 December, 2010 (Ed Butler) -
    "Opposition activists claim that a number of
    arrests and the killings of 10 local farmers are
    as a direct result of the new policy....More
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Country Report: Ethiopia
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impacted communities,
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Karuturi to outsource Ethiopian land to Indian farmers
    12 October, 2011 (Raghuvir Badrinath) -
    "“We have got a decent response. We intend to
    give land and the necessary infrastructure to
    farmers who have the expertise in specific crop
cultivation and get into a revenue share (65:35) with them....More
Ethiopia: Forced relocations bring hunger, hardship
    17 January, 2012 (HRW) - "The report,
    “‘Waiting Here for Death’: Forced
    Displacement and ‘Villagization’ in Ethiopia’s
    Gambella Region,” examines the first year of
    Gambella’s villagization program. It details the
involuntary nature of the transfers, the loss of livelihoods,...More
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Ethiopia sells swathes of land to foreigners
05 February, 2012 (The Africa Report) - "About 700 hectares of
the land is in the Borena area of Dire Dawa while 350 hect...More
Scramble for Ethiopia's Land
    07 February, 2012 (Gilles van Kote)
    - "Ethiopia – and the region of Gambela
    in particular – is the site of a real
    competition for arable land.  Non-
    governmental organizations (NGOs) call
the phenomenon “land grabbing”.   It’s when mostly foreign
investors purchase or lease hundreds of thousands of hectares at a
low price and it’s become widespread in Africa, but also in...More
New evidences & old denials clash over human rights
violations in Gambella, as fortified evidences emerge;..
19 Jan. 2012 (Keffyalew G/medhin) - "This situation now points
to the root causes of all its violences against farmers, the free..More