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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.
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.
Land leased to secure crops for South Korea
- Financial Times
- 18 November 2008
Daewoo Logistics of South Korea has secured farmland in Madagascar to grow food crops for Seoul, in a deal that diplomats and consultants said was the largest of its kind.
Une délégation sud-coréenne en visite au Palais d’Etat d’Iavoloha, en début de soirée de ce jeudi
- Presidence de la Republique de Madagascar
- 30 October 2008
Le Président de la République, Marc Ravalomanana, a reçu en audience ce jeudi 30 octobre 2008 en fin d’après-midi, au Palais d’Iavoloha, une délégation d’opérateurs économiques sud-coréens, conduite par le Président de la Compagnie Daewoo Madagascar
Malagasy land and foreign investments
- Quest Bulgaria
- 21 October 2008
Nowadays, the concern of the Malagasy governement is focused on how to attract foreign private investments. The new Malagasy investment law, Act 2007-036 of January 14th, 2008, has brought a very key change concerning the possibility for foreigners to own their land in Madagascar
Wikileaks: Leading businessman on Sudan's agriculture sector, foreign-investor activity, and government mismanagement
- Wikileaks
- 18 September 2008
"In a wide-ranging conversation, Sudanese business magnate Osama Daoud outlined a project to gradually develop as much as 1.26 million acres in northern Sudan for agricultural production," reports the US Embassy in Khartoum
Korean land in Argentina to be developed
- Chosun Libo
- 10 September 2008
There is Korean land in Argentina: 20,894 hectares of pampas some 1,000 km northwest of the capital Buenos Aires. The Korean government bought the land in 1978 for US$2,115,000, but it has remained neglected for about 30 years.
Global Scramble to Own Food and Agricultural Assets
- TriState Observer
- 05 September 2008
On the heels of tight crop production reports and the recent memory of individual nations experiencing food disruptions, there is a scramble to control or own agricultural assets and food stocks.