17 January 2012 bilateral cooperation between Ethiopia and Saudi Arabia is getting strengthened from time to time, Agriculture Minister Tefera Deribew said.
Care petition against land grab Saudi Arabia "Resistance doesn't help when you are relocated, often being met with threats, violence and arrest, according to Human Rights Watch. The thousands already moved are just the beginning; the Ethiopian government plans to relocate 1.5 million people by next year. "
Over the past decade and a half, foreign companies have signed over 60 deals covering nearly 4 million hectares in central and western Africa for the development of oil palm plantations. The land grabs are already generating violent conflicts in several African countries.
future scarcities, wave of extinctions, supply bottlenecks a tidal wave of unrest the breakdown of social order a tsunami of disaster "In March, for the first time, Director of National Intelligence James R. Clapper listed “competition and scarcity involving natural resources” as a national security threat on a par with global terrorism, cyberwar, and nuclear proliferation... There was a new phrase embedded in his comments: “resource shocks.” "