Ethiopia: In Ethiopia, Foreign Investment is a Fancy Word for Stealing Land

Oct 17, 2014 | Daniel A. Medina, Quartz
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It’s been called by some to be a new form of colonialism. Others say it is outright theft.

Since 2000, over 37 million hectares of land, mainly in the world’s poorest nations, have been acquired by foreign investors “without the free, prior, and informed consent of communities” in what, according to Oxfam and other organizations, constitutes a “land grab.” It’s a portion of land twice the size of Germany, according to researchers.