production in Madagascar Benjamin Neimark Department of Geography - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

Biofuel battlegrounds: Property rights, land deals, and alternative energy production in Madagascar Benjamin Neimark Department of Geography and Urban Studies Temple University bneimark@temple.edu International Conference on Global Land Grabbing Institute of Development Studies University of Sussex. 6-8 April 2011 crossedcrocodiles.wordpress.com/.../

Army tanks roving the capital http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_pictures/7946999.stm

‘bloodless’ coup?

Daewoo land deal

social movements – neopatrimonialism

Access mapping

Parallels between bioprospecting and agrofuel capitalism

Parallels between bioprospecting and agrofuel capitalism • Access mapping of actors involved (biotech/research)

Parallels between bioprospecting and agrofuel capitalism • Access mapping of actors involved (biotech/research) • Industrialization of the production system (nature and labor)

Parallels between bioprospecting and agrofuel capitalism • Access mapping of actors involved (biotech/research) • Industrialization of the production system (nature and labor) • Claims of ownership, property and access

Parallels between bioprospecting and agrofuel capitalism • Access mapping of actors involved (biotech/research) • Industrialization of the production system (nature and labor) • Claims of ownership, property and access • Prior informed-consent & benefit sharing

Parallels between bioprospecting and agrofuel capitalism • Access mapping of actors involved (biotech/research) • Industrialization of the production system (nature and labor) • Claims of ownership, property and access • Prior informed-consent & benefit sharing • Rent seeking elites

Parallels between bioprospecting and agrofuel capitalism • Access mapping of actors involved (biotech/research) • Industrialization of the production system (nature and labor) • Claims of ownership, property and access • Prior informed-consent & benefit sharing • Rent seeking elites • Market dynamics- boom and bust; speculative or ‘virtual’ land grabbing

Parallels between bioprospecting and agrofuel capitalism • Access mapping of actors involved (biotech/research) • Industrialization of the production system (nature and labor) • Industrialization of the production system • Claims of ownership, property and access • Prior informed-consent & benefit sharing • Rent seeking elites • Market dynamics- boom and bust; speculative or ‘virtual’ land grabbing

From the ‘power of exclusion to the ‘power of inclusion’ • Cheap labor • Green capitalism & through ‘pro - poor’ promotion of ‘global goods’ – Participation – Consent – Income generation • Flexible dispossession towards distributive and procedural justice

• Green Energy Madagascar (GEM) S.A.R.L. • D1 Oils Madagascar SARL • La Flora Ecopower Holding AG de Munich • GEXSI - The Global Exchange for Social Investment