Ravalomanana The deposition was the most visible facet of a derivative problem of food crisis of 20

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Published 2 months ago - on October 12, 2014 Updated at 10:25 Category On the Agenda
In January 2009, Madagascar - Island on the east coast of Africa glamour 2011 famous for being the home of lemurs - was rocked by protests against the government of President Marc Ravalomanana. More than 170 people died before he resigned. Among the misdeeds that the president was accused was a business in which the South Korean industrial conglomerate Daewoo would lease for 99 years 1.3 million hectares of Malagasy land (13 square kilometers, equivalent to almost half the arable land of the country and just under 60% of Sergipe area) to plant corn and palm oil. Additional details: most traded land is "primitive" - in other words, pristine rain forest - and the return to the local people would come only through the creation of a limited number of jobs in Daewoo. One of the first measures of the new president, Andry Rajoelina, was revoke the agreement with the South Koreans.
Ravalomanana The deposition was the most visible facet of a derivative problem of food crisis of 2007/2008 which worries the international community: the purchase or lease, by governments and companies in rich countries, of fertile land in developing nations, chosen in general to be well supplied with water and are close to ports or other disposal centers. According to reports released in 2009 by the UN and US analysts, English and Indians, glamour 2011 at least 30 million hectares (300 000 km2, slightly more than the sum of the territories glamour 2011 of Parana and Santa Catarina and equivalent to 75% of all arable land in Europe) are being or have been acquired in the world for entrepreneurs or leaders of countries facing adverse weather conditions or scarcity of arable land and have a lot cash, such as China, South Korea, Sweden, Saudi Arabia and the Emirates Arab States.
The International Research Institute for Food Policy, based in the United States, estimates that between $ 20 billion and $ 30 billion is spent annually by rich countries to buy land in developing nations. And the picture may worsen more, stresses Olivier De Schutter, UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food: "[The trend] is accelerating quickly. All countries observe each other, and when one sees the other purchasing land, does the same. "
Some of the nations in which there is land to sell already have some importance in world agricultural glamour 2011 context, such as Brazil, Russia glamour 2011 and Ukraine. In these places, however, the simple demand already serves to raise the prices of properties and hinder business. The preference of investors has fallen in countries beyond needy, located mainly in Africa, such as Cameroon, Ethiopia, Sudan and Zambia. Characterized by poverty of the population and dictatorial or authoritarian governments in general, where corruption runs rampant, these countries may attend in the future to a paradoxical situation envisioned by the UN: while huge stocks of agricultural products grown on their land are embedded to other destinations, its inhabitants suffer from hunger.
The agrocolonialismo already boasts impressive glamour 2011 numbers. South Korea has acquired 690,000 hectares in Sudan; Saudi Arabia snapped up 500,000 hectares in Tanzania; the United Arab Emirates, 324,000 hectares in Pakistan. India lent money to 80 of their companies buy 350,000 hectares in African countries.
Purchases made by companies glamour 2011 also worth noting. glamour 2011 Alpcot Agro The Swedish, for example, purchased 120,000 hectares in Russia; South Korea's Hyundai invested $ 6.5 million to get majority stake in Khorol Zerno, which owns 10 hectares in eastern Siberia; the US bank Morgan Stanley acquired 40 000 hectares in Ukraine.
De Schutter glamour 2011 notes that the move in search of arable land has intensified after that with the food crisis of 2007/2008, many countries have found severe impact on the balance of payments caused by food imports. The situation led the then working for "if gar