farmlandgrab.org | Madagascar

Despite violent protests and coup, Daewoo continues to hold cropland in Madagascar
- Mongabay
- 19 June 2009
Daewoo continues to surreptitiously hold some 218,000 hectares of appropriated land in Madagascar
Madagascar: Daewoo's rainforest land grab in nature's paradise
- Rettet den Regenwald
- 19 June 2009
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.
La FAO alerta sobre la compra masiva de tierras
- Diagonal
- 19 June 2009
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.
La HAT signe un accord avec... Daewoo
- Malaza
- 18 June 2009
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.
The food crisis continues - in the form of a global scramble for lucrative farmlands
- CounterCurrents
- 17 June 2009
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.
Foncier 8 : Le point du jour
- Bekoto paysans
- 17 June 2009
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.
Interview: India Yes Bank sees 1st Africa farm project start 2011
- Reuters
- 15 June 2009
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."
Quand le Sud vend sa terre
- Alternatives Economiques
- 05 June 2009
Des Etats multiplient les achats de terres agricoles au Sud. Avec des conséquences parfois dramatiques pour les populations locales.
Le ROPPA opposée à la vente massive des terres agricoles en Afrique
- Afrique en ligne
- 01 June 2009
M. Ndiogou Fall a exprimé lundi l'opposition "totale" du ROPPA à la vente massive des terres cultivables en Afrique
Food security or economic slavery?
- Business Day
- 01 June 2009
These arrangements are reminiscent of “banana republics” when many African countries served as plantations for European countries -- but even those did not come with such explicit restrictions and rigidities.
La pugna por la tierra amenaza a los africanos
- El País
- 25 May 2009
Las adquisiciones de tierra en África, Asia y Latinoamérica, tal y como se hacen en la actualidad, suponen condenar a los más pobres a ser desalojados de sus fincas o a perder acceso a la tierra, al agua y a otros recursos, según el primer estudio sobre la nueva tendencia de grandes corporaciones y gobiernos de invertir en tierras en países pobres, encargado por las agencias de las Naciones Unidas de la Agricultura y Alimentación y del Desarrollo (FAO y UNDP).
Mideast grabs land elsewhere
- CNN
- 21 May 2009
CNN's John Defterios takes a look at how Middle Eastern countries are scouring the globe for farmland.