Land grabbing in Ethiopia - agriculture

Question 1

what is happening?

Answer 1

• Government encouraged investment
• 896 investors since 2007
• Buying land for very cheap
• Mainly from india, china, saudi arabia
• Land grabbing = form of neo colonialism
• Area size of britain made into farms

Question 2

impacts

Answer 2

• 15 000 people being moved
• Farmers disappears, imprisoned, beaten etc if spoken out
• Nobody in ethiopia is benefiting as all food exported
• Ironic as the same country receiving food aid from usa, france, uk etc
• Most workers paid 1 dollar a day