Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2014 23:29:29 +0200
In Ethiopia, foreign investment is a fancy word for stealing land
<http://qz.com/author/dmedinaqz/> Daniel A. Medina
17.10.2014
It's been called by some to be a
<http://www.channel4.com/news/africa-succumbs-to-colonial-style-land-grab>
new form of colonialism. Others say it is
<http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/liberia/9584
931/Protest-at-the-great-African-land-grab.html> outright theft.
Since 2000, over 37 million hectares of land, mainly in the world's poorest
nations, have been acquired by foreign investors "without the free, prior,
and informed consent of communities" in what,
<http://www.oxfamamerica.org/take-action/campaign/food-farming-and-hunger/la
nd-grabs/> according to Oxfam and other organizations, constitutes a "land
grab." It's a portion of land twice the size of Germany,
<http://landmatrix.org/en/> according to researchers.......
Read it in PDF attachment below and watch the Video pushing on the link
then to "land grabbing or land to investors?" from Alfredo Bini :
http://qz.com/275489/in-ethiopia-foreign-investment-is-a-fancy-word-for-stea
ling-land/
Berhane
Ethiopia land grabbing
Colonialism never left. (Alfredo Bini/Cosmos)
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