Ethiopia: Challenges and Prospects of ‘Land to the Grabbers’ Policy

Tuji Jidda Though I haven’t seen, I assume that the newly implemented ‘land for Grabbers’ policy is an extension of Ethiopia’s a combined Investment policy, agriculture-led industrial development policy and export-oriented trade and industrial policy. As such, there is no problem with providing arable lands to foreign investors per say. However, concerns come from the perception that ‘countries have been on a quest for the ultimate ‘breadbasket’ of grains to feed their growing population and to combat world wide rising food prices’.