Earlier this week, I noted that the Daewoo land lease deal in Madagascar - under which the South Korean conglomerate secured the lease to one half of...
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South Korea’s Madagascar land lease: it gets worse – much worse
Yesterday I did a post linking to a piece by Javier Blas in the FT, who had learned that Madagascar had agreed to lease half of its arable land - an area half...
South Korea leases half of Madagascar’s arable land
Blimey. I've written here before about the growing importance of security of supply concerns in agricultural trade, and the fact that some countries -...
No secrets (even in Madagascar)
Just a quickie on the Madagascar coup from a Royal Africa Society talk I attended on Tuesday. According to Volatiana Rahaga, who is president of the...
Land grabs meet climate policy
Very interested to see the news today that City of London police have "arrested the director of a Merseyside-based business in connection with an alleged plan...
More on African land deals
Article on rich-country land acquisitions in Africa
Landgrab deals: actually water grabs
We've been posting regularly here about the various 'landgrab' third party food supply deals that have been such a feature of the last year or two (see the...
Landgrab map
Further to Alex's recent posts (here, here and here) on wealthy countries' purchases of arable land in the developing world, here's a map from Le Monde...
From landgrab to coup d’etat
Back in November last year, I blogged on the land lease deal agreed between Daewoo, the South Korean company, and the government of Madagascar, under which...
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