India cultivates Africa
    Indian firms have signed land deals in Ethiopia, Kenya and Madagascar to produce a range of food crops for export to India.
    • Mail Today
    • 25 June 2009
    Land grabs becoming more popular
    Many land transactions occur without a paper trail, therefore making regulation even more challenging.
    • Farmland Forecast
    • 24 June 2009
    Il n’y a pas que les vaches qui rient
    Dans tout le flou et le vague qui règnent autour du projet Daewoo, il y avait au moins une certitude : les Sud-coréens se proposaient de louer des terres qui seraient restées à Madagascar. L’eau de Faraony quant à elle, quittera bel et bien la Grande Ile, et en grande quantité.
    • Madagacasr-Tribune.com
    • 22 June 2009
    Despite violent protests and coup, Daewoo continues to hold cropland in Madagascar
    Daewoo continues to surreptitiously hold some 218,000 hectares of appropriated land in Madagascar
    • Mongabay
    • 19 June 2009
    Madagascar: Daewoo's rainforest land grab in nature's paradise
    Support our protest with a letter to Ahn Yong Nam, president and CEO of Daewoo Logistics Corp. Urge Daewoo to bring clarity and transparency to the public about the announced contract with the Madagascan government, and their contents and conditions.
    • Rettet den Regenwald
    • 19 June 2009
    La FAO alerta sobre la compra masiva de tierras
    Las poblaciones afectadas no siempre permanecen expectantes. Además de la larga lucha del pueblo mapuche contra Benetton en Chile y Argentina, el caso de Madagascar es paradigmático.
    • Diagonal
    • 19 June 2009
    La HAT signe un accord avec... Daewoo
    La colère suscitée par l'éventuel démarrage d'un vaste projet agricole, conclu entre l'ancien gouvernement et la société sud-coréenne Daewoo Logistics, continue d'alimenter la crise actuelle.
    • Malaza
    • 18 June 2009
    The food crisis continues - in the form of a global scramble for lucrative farmlands
    It's a tsunami of land deals and, as all of the experts who have studied the phenomenon have agreed, no nation is truly prepared for its implications.
    • CounterCurrents
    • 17 June 2009
    Foncier 8 : Le point du jour
    Je me demande si l'agenda du développement rural semblerait déjà avoir été écrit à l'avance par toutes et tous... sauf par les paysans africains et malgaches eux-mêmes.
    • Bekoto paysans
    • 17 June 2009
    Interview: India Yes Bank sees 1st Africa farm project start 2011
    Yes Bank expects a $150 million Tanzanian rice and wheat project to reach full production by 2011, the first of several large African farms it is funding. "We are looking at a more inclusive model wherein the local farmers can be organised into a producers company, and they would be the suppliers to the processing facility. It's predominantly not to acquire huge tracts of land."
    • Reuters
    • 15 June 2009
    Quand le Sud vend sa terre
    Des Etats multiplient les achats de terres agricoles au Sud. Avec des conséquences parfois dramatiques pour les populations locales.
    • Alternatives Economiques
    • 05 June 2009
    Le ROPPA opposée à la vente massive des terres agricoles en Afrique
    M. Ndiogou Fall a exprimé lundi l'opposition "totale" du ROPPA à la vente massive des terres cultivables en Afrique
    • Afrique en ligne
    • 01 June 2009

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