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Ethiopia at centre of global farmland rush

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.
Find the full story here at The Guardian Documentary

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.
Find the full story here at The Guardian Documentary

One Response to “Ethiopia at centre of global farmland rush”

  1. Starvation and poverty which were close intimate of Ethiopian people, seem to be on the final phase of saying good bye once and for all.

    Good job EPRDF and keep on creating conducive environment for foreign investors for extensive and highly mechanized agriculture.

    And don’t listen the extremists- Ethiopian diaspora segment who got a ridiculous cock and bull story about…”land grab”

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