• Madagascar: South Korea corn deal not sealed yet
    • Reuters
    • 21 November 2008

    Madagascar has denied reaching agreement with South Korea's Daewoo Logistics to let it plant more than 1 million hectares of food crops on the Indian Ocean island.

  • Le projet Daewoo dans le flou.
    • L'Express de Madagascar
    • 21 November 2008

    Panja Ramanoelina, ministre de l'Agriculture, de l'élevage et de la pêche, et Marius Ratolojanahary, ministre de l'Aménagement du territoire, de la réforme foncière et des domaines insistent sur le fait que le projet agricole de Daewoo Corporation n'en est qu'au stade de prospection de terrains.

  • 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.

  • Cambodia holds land deal talks
    • Financial Times
    • 20 November 2008

    Cambodia is in talks with several Asian and Middle Eastern governments to receive as much as $3bn in agricultural investment in return for millions of hectares in land concessions, according to a senior government official.

  • 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.

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