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Convention on the Great Land Grab Saga in Ethiopia and India- reports

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Indian Social Action Forum, The Oakland Institute, Kalpavriksh and PEACE organised 2 meetings on 5-6 Feb. 2013. ‘A Convention on the Great Land Grab Saga in Ethiopia and India’ was a day-long conference on Feb. 6, 2013 at the India International Centre, New Delhi to deliberate on the ongoing land takeover in India and in African countries like Ethiopia by the Indian companies. It was followed by the Convention on struggles against landgrab & fabrication of false cases activists on 7-8 Feb.


The report of the meetings is at:

Some media coverage:

http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/how-ethiopians-are-being-pushed-off-their-land/article4428760.ece

http://www.business-standard.com/article/opinion/sreelatha-menon-bloodied-pulses-113021600635_1.html

http://www.guardian.co.uk/global-development/2013/feb/07/india-investors-forcing-ethiopians-off-land

http://www.hardnewsmedia.com/2013/02/5806

http://www.guardian.co.uk/global-development/poverty-matters/2013/feb/25/indian-land-grabs-ethiopia

24 minutes debate on Rajya Sabha TV: http://tinyurl.com/c377clt

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