Learner Resource 6 – Land grabbing in Ethiopia
Watch the Aljazeera short film “Ethiopia-Land for Sale” and answer the following questions.
1. What has changed in Ethiopia in the last 6-7 years?
2. What has happened to the Ethiopian economy in the last decade?
3. In the past three years by how much has the GDP increased?
4. What has created the growth?
5. What countries have leased land in the Gambella region?
6. What happens to the food produced on the foreign leased land?
7. Explain the threats to the local tribes?
8. How many hectares of land do the community have to survive on?
9. Why do the locals think their land is not as productive as it could be?
10. In the past 7 years how much land has been leased to foreign investors?
11. How much land do the Ethiopian government intend to lease out?
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12. Outline the benefits of leasing out land to foreign investors?
13. How many foreign companies have signed land agreements?
14. How much does the Ethiopian government charge foreign investors to lease land?
15. How does this price compare with other countries?
16. How much does the Indian company pay for the land it leases in Ethiopia?
17. What type of crops are being produced and what are they used for?
18. What has happened to the amount of farm land that the Indian company leases?
19. Decribe how the Indian company have increased productivity?
20. What are the impacts on local people of the foreign investors leasing land?
21. What is “Villageisation”?
22. How many people have been displaced?
23. What do the Office for Rural Development say are the benefits of “Villageisation”?
24. What have happened to the services the dispaced people were promised?
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