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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


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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

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Army tanks roving the capital

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_pictures/7946999.stm

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‘bloodless’ coup?

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Daewoo land deal

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social movements – neopatrimonialism

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Access mapping

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Parallels between bioprospecting and agrofuel capitalism

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Parallels between bioprospecting and agrofuel capitalism

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

  • Access mapping of actors involved (biotech/research)
  • Industrialization of the production system (nature and labor)
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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
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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
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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
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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

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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

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From the ‘power of exclusion to the ‘power

  • f inclusion’
  • Cheap labor
  • Green capitalism & through ‘pro-poor’

promotion of ‘global goods’

– Participation – Consent – Income generation

  • Flexible dispossession towards distributive and

procedural justice

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  • 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