Category: Ethiopian land grabbing

Fashion retailer H&M says seeks to ensure cotton does not come from Ethiopia land grab

STOCKHOLM (Reuters) – Hennes & Mauritz , the world’s second-biggest fashion retailer, said on Tuesday that it made every effort to ensure its cotton did not come from appropriated land but could not provide an absolute guarantee. Swedish TV4 said H&M was using cotton from areas in Ethiopia that are vulnerable to land grabbing —

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Ongoing Resource Extraction from Ethiopia and the Global South

By Wossen Michael (PhD) We live in a world-historic moment where grain or food has become the most precious commodity around. To state matters bluntly, if oil is the master resource of the Middle East, agricultural and mineral resources are those of Ethiopia and Africa in general. Water also constitutes a major agricultural resource. This

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