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   We Say the Land is Not Yours: Breaking the Silence Against Forced Displacement in Ethiopia

   Reports & Research

   April, 2015

   Ethiopia

   Indigenous & Community Land Rights

   land administration

   land governance

   corruption

   land use

   land grabbing

   land rights

   dispossession

   eviction

   indigenous peoples' land rights

   land ownership

   Over the past six years, the Oakland Institute has been at the forefront of exposing the social, economic, and environmental impacts of foreign land grabs in Ethiopia.

2. Library Resource

   

   ENGINEERING ETHNIC CONFLICT THE TOLL OF ETHIOPIA’S PLANTATION DEVELOPMENT ON THE SURI PEOPLE

   Reports & Research

   November, 2014

   Ethiopia

   Land Conflicts

   Rangelands, Drylands & Pastoralism

   land access

   land administration

   land policies

   land use

   pastoral land rights

   pastoral lands

   rangelands

   Recently dubbed “Africa’s Lion” (in allusion to the discourse around “Asian Tigers”), Ethiopia is celebrated for its steady economic growth, including a growing number of millionaires compared to other African nations. However, as documented in previous research by the Oakland Institute, the Ethiopian government’s “development strategy,” is founded on its policy of leasing millions of hectares (ha) of land to foreign investors.

3. Library Resource

   

   MORAL BANKRUPTCY WORLD BANK REINVENTS TAINTED AID PROGRAM FOR ETHIOPIA

   Reports & Research

   January, 2016

   Ethiopia

   Rangelands, Drylands & Pastoralism

   land governance

   land policies

   land tenure

   local communities

   pastoral lands

   pastoralists

   rangelands

   Moral Bankruptcy: World Bank Reinvents Tainted Aid Program for Ethiopia exposes the shameful reinvention of one of the Bank’s most problematic programs in Ethiopia. The report also reveals that the US Treasury violated congressional law when voting in favor of this program.