Land Rights
February 18, 2013
There is something in common between Karuturi Global, a pioneer worldwide in production of roses, Emami Biotech, a part of Kolkata-based Emami group, the conglomerate Shapoorji Pallonji, and another eight other Indian companies.
February 8, 2013
Land deals with big business groups, including Indian companies, are being negotiated without any consensus, or prior consent of the indigenous population, forcibly evicting them from their land where they have lived for centuries with little or no compensation
February 7, 2013
The Ethiopian government has committed egregious human rights abuses to make way for agricultural land investments, in direct violation of international law, said the Oakland Institute in a new briefing paper released in New Delhi this week.
February 13, 2013
February 13, 2013
PRESS RELEASE
For Immediate Release
Contact: Zach Blume, Student Organizer, Vanderbilt Responsible Endowment Campaign
zach.blume@vanderbilt.edu / (401) 714-3118
Rose Espinola, National Organizer, Responsible Endowments Coalition
February 7, 2013
In my recent reply to David Attenborough‘s claim that hunger in Ethiopia is caused by overpopulation, I pointed out that he had totally ignored the forced dispossession of peasant farmers and the sale of huge tracts fertile land to foreign investors who grow export crops.
February 7, 2013
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February 7, 2013
You might think that Ethiopia is a country that would take its food supply very, very seriously. We're regularly greeted by appeals for donations to help relieve starvation in the Horn of Africa - Ethiopia, Djibouti, Somalia, Eritrea.
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