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The new land rush.

Publication: The Wilson Quarterly
Publication Date: 22-SEP-09 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: The new land rush.(AT THE CENTER)(foreign investments on agriculture)

Article Excerpt
FEW PLACES ON EARTH ARE MORE EXOTIC THAN the island of Madagascar, where most of the world's vanilla beans growin shady comers within tropical forests, and farmers struggle to produce food on small plots of baked red soft. When world food prices spiked in 2008, the Financial Times of London revealed that the Daewoo Logistics Corporation had negotiated a 99-year lease on nearly half of Madagascar's arable land. In return for $6 billion, the company would get a steady supply of corn and palm oil to sell in South Korea.

News of the deal flashed across the Internet, where it was characterized...

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