Land & Environment

The tragedy of hunger again becomes current news from the food emergency in the Horn of Africa, but famines are a silent daily reality.

According to a new Land Deal Brief from the Oakland Institute (OI) to be released on September 12, 2011, the controversial Gibe III hydroelectric project located in Ethiopia's Omo Valley is facilitating the take over of 350,000 hectares (ha) of land for sugar cane and cotton plantations.