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La Corée du Sud relance la course aux terres agricoles
- Le Monde
- 20 November 2008
La chute du cours des céréales sur les marchés mondiaux n'a pas stoppé la course aux terres agricoles par les pays qui en manquent.
Madagascar : Daewoo gagne le gros lot
- Courrier International
- 20 November 2008
Le sud-coréen Daewoo va se lancer dans la culture de maïs et la production d'huile de palme à Madagascar, où le groupe bénéficie d'une licence d'exploitation de terres immenses pour une durée de quatre-vingt-dix-neuf ans.
Madagascar enthusiastic at corn deal with Daewoo
- Associated Press
- 20 November 2008
Madagascar officials are enthusiastic about a company's big farming plans for an undeveloped area but say the deal won't go ahead if it threatens the island's unique ecology. An environmental impact assessment was to begin shortly, the Malagasy Environment Office said Thursday.
Daewoo leases Madagascan land for crops
- BBC
- 20 November 2008
A lot of countries don't grow nearly enough food to feed themselves. Britain is one; South Korea, another. The giant South Korean conglomerate, Daewoo, has come up with a novel way of solving the problem of food security. It has leased a vast tract of land, 1.3 million acres, on the African island of Madagascar.
Welcome fades for wealthy nations
- Financial Times
- 20 November 2008
The initial welcome given to rich countries’ investment in African farmland by agricultural and development officials has faded as the first ventures prove to be heavily weighted in favour of the investors. The FAO warned of such a trend when it said this year that the race to secure farmland overseas risked creating a “neo-colonial” system.
Daewoo Logistics Says Farm Deal May Cost $6 Billion
- Bloomberg
- 20 November 2008
Daewoo Logistics Corp., a South Korean natural-resource development company, expects a project to lease vast tracts of farmland in Madagascar to grow corn and palm oil may cost about $6 billion over the first 20 years. The investment will pay for the lease costs as well as building a port, roads, irrigation, and power plants, along with schools and hospitals for locals, Shin Dong Hyun, a manager leading the project, said today by phone.
La Corée du Sud dans la maïsiculture
- L'Express de Madagascar
- 20 November 2008
La compagnie Daewoo logistics entend planter du maïs sur une surface totale de 1 million d'hectares.
Food security deal should not stand
- Financial Times
- 19 November 2008
Pirates are not the only source of concern off the African coast. The deal South Korea’s Daewoo Logistics is negotiating with the Madagascan government looks rapacious. Alas, it is but the latest brazen example of a wider phenomenon.
Daewoo to cultivate Madagascar land for free
- Financial Times
- 19 November 2008
Daewoo Logistics of South Korea said it expected to pay nothing to farm maize and palm oil in an area of Madagascar half the size of Belgium, increasing concerns about the largest farmland investment of this kind.
SKorean company plans corn project in Madagascar
- Associated Press
- 19 November 2008
A South Korean company hopes to turn an undeveloped stretch of Madagascar into a corn-production center, an official said Wednesday.
Food security still an issue - Will there be an OPEC for food?
- Ag Capita
- 19 November 2008
Agcapita allows investors to gain direct exposure to a key part of the agriculture commodity bull market story - Canadian farmland.
South Korea's Daewoo to grow corn in Madagascar
- Reuters
- 18 November 2008
South Korea's Daewoo Logistics will plant corn in Madagascar, a company official said on Tuesday, with a long-term aim to replace more than half the corn it currently imports from mostly the United States.