• The Daewoo-Madagascar land grab, 10 years on
    • GRAIN and the Collective for the Defence of Malagasy Lands
    • 16 November 2018

    On 18 November 2008, The Financial Times exposed a massive deal being negotiated between Daewoo Logistics and the government of Madagascar. Ten years later, what are we seeing?

  • Daewoo's overseas agribusiness expansion
    • GRAIN, Tany, Yayasan Pusaka
    • 29 May 2018

    South Korea’s Daewoo is one of world’s largest transnational conglomerates and continues to expand a business empire that extends from manufacturing and trade to natural resources like oil and gas, minerals and food.

  • Madagascar: Rogue mayors, gangster politics
    • East African
    • 13 Mar 2018

    Madagascar, still chafing from a major broil in 2009 after Ravalomanana made a land deal with Daewoo, is set to have a presidential election in November.

  • POSCO Daewoo launches agribusiness in Myanmar
    • Korea Times
    • 22 January 2017

    According to a POSCO Daewoo official, Sunday, Korea's largest trading affiliate under POSCO group has secured construction and investment approval from the Myanmar government to build a rice processing complex (RPC) in Twante.

  • Norway’s wealth fund expels POSCO, Daewoo Int’l over palm oil holdings
    • Mongabay
    • 18 August 2015

    Norway’s central bank is divesting the country’s $870 billion pension fund of its holdings in four Asian multinationals for palm oil in Southeast Asia. POSCO and Daewoo were excluded for the activities in Merauke, Indonesia’s Papua province.

  • Looming nightmare, Daewoo Logistics back on the offensive?
    • TANY
    • 16 October 2013

    Five years after it was proposed, Daewoo Logistics' agribusiness project, which envisioned a 99-year lease of 1.3 million ha in four regions of Madagascar, has now returned to the news.

  • Korean diplomacy sees new opportunity in Madagascar
    • Viru News
    • 18 February 2013

    Korean diplomats are working hard to help Daewoo Logistics regain a huge land deal it lost after a 2009 coup d’etat in the island nation in anticipation of new elections slated for the first half of this year, according to Viru News

  • The impact of MIFEE presence at Bian River and Maro River, West Papua
    • Tabloidjubi.com
    • 21 December 2012

    Report from Indigenous Peoples Organization of Bian Enim

  • Much ado about a Daewoo subsidiary
    • Indian Ocean Newsletter
    • 18 January 2012

    Daewoo says its capital increase in its subsidiary in Madagascar will be used to pay operating expenses and to finance market studies concerning its future investments, mainly chicken farming and public construction works.

  • Madagascar Future Entreprises
    • Indian Ocean Newsletter
    • 13 January 2012

    The Korean company Daewoo Logistics Corporation has acquired all the shares in the agribusiness company Madagascar Future Entreprises. Its manager Kwon Kim is believed to have begun new negotiations with the present Malagasy government for agricultural projects.

  • South Korea seeks own approach in African investments
    • VOA News
    • 20 October 2011

    The relationship between landowners and land on which people are living is not so clear in Africa, so the first thing we have to do is to survey lands and clarify the ownership of the land, says Korean diplomat.

  • South Korea's food security alarm
    • Asia Sentinel
    • 29 April 2011

    A new report from the Samsung chaebol advocates a Korean domestic and international food revolution

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