« Pour ce parlementaire (Siteny Randrianasoloniaiko), il y a de gros mensonges dans le cadre de cette affaire. Comme la plupart de ceux qui contestent cette exploitation d’ilménite dans la ville de Toliara, IL DOUTE QUE CELA PUISSE ÊTRE BÉNÉFIQUE POUR LA POPULATION »

Hoy izahay vao omalin’ny omaly

« lysnorine 8 août à 18:50 , « Atsimo Andrefana-Toliara Sands peut exploiter en dépit de vives tensions sur place », mercredi 8 août 2018
https://www.madagascar-tribune.com/Toliara-Sands-peut-exploiter-en,24135.html

« Fanampiny ho an’izay ta-handalina ny maha-rariny sy hitsiny ny FIKOMIAN’NY VAHOAKA MANOHITRA ny mpitondra fanjakana malagasy sy ny PÔLITIKANY FIVAROTAN-TANINDRAZANA amin’ny nanekena tetik’asa tahaka itony, TSY MAMPANDROSO na HAMPANDROSO VELIVELY ny sarambabem-bahoaka sy ny ekônômian’ny Tanindrazany. Mbola TSY FAY tamin’ny « RIO TINTO » tatsy Taolanaro !

« 1) ’’Black sands, green plans and vernacular (in)securities in the contested margins of south-western Madagascar’’, Amber Huff, Published online : 22 Feb 2017
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/21647259.2016.1277012 »

Misy andalan-tsoratra notsoahanay avy amin’io lahatsoratra io ireto antenainy fa mba HANAITRA ny mpanao pôlitika, indrindra ireo mikatsaka « REFONDATION » sy milatsaka hofidina ho prezidàn’i Madagasikara ka hamporisika azy HIOVA FISAINANA ka HANDRAVA tanteraka ireo pôlitika MAMOHEHATRA narahina ny fitondrana nisesy nandritra ny sahabo ho telopolo taona.

‘’From the early 1980s, supported by the World Bank, Madagascar entered a period of DRAMATIC LIBERALISING REFORMS, the crux of which was the REDEFINITION OF THE ROLE OF THE MALAGASY STATE to facilitate its SHIFT AWAY from REGULATION and PRODUCTION and creating the ‘RIGHT’ (!) policy environment for investment through mechanisms of PRIVATISATION, DEREGULATION and DECENTRALISATION.28
[28 Bruno Sarrasin, ‘The Mining Industry and the Regulatory Framework in Madagascar : Some Developmental and Environmental Issues’, Journal of Cleaner Production 14, no. 3–4 (January 2006) : 388–96]

Aside from CONTRACTUAL AGREEMENTS with the WORLD BANK and INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND , these mechanisms were formalised in a series of synergistic LEGISLATIVE REFORMS at the national level between the 1990s and 2000s, including most importantly what became the National Environmental Action Plan (NEAP), the Malagasy Mining Code, the Law on Investments and the National Land Tenure Programme.

DESPITE reforms promising growth, poverty alleviation and environmental preservation, Madagascar REMAIN THE LEAST-DEVELOPED AND MOST UNEQUAL COUNTRIES in the world by a number of indicators, with one of the lowest gross domestic products in sub-Saharan Africa. BUT it has seen INTENSIFIED GROWTH OF INTERNATIONAL INTEREST AND INVESTMENT in its NATURAL RESOURCES in terms of both biodiversity conservation and EXTRACTIVE DEVELOPMENTS in recent years. In the last decade, for example, the Malagasy government has dramatically expanded its protected area network, and, in an EXTREMELY LIBERAL NATIONAL POLICY ENVIRONMENT, multinational mining companies have recently made the largest foreign investments in the country’s history.29
29 Sarrasin, ‘The Mining Industry and the Regulatory Framework’

These recent trends mean that LARGE-SCALE RESOURCE APPROPRIATIONS are UNPRECEDENTED in their geographic extent and potential for revenue generation, BUT also in their POTENTIAL IMPACTS on the Malagasy LANDSCAPE and the LIVELIHOODS OF RURAL PEOPLE.
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Many described contemporary patterns of discrimination, harassment and fear of violence arising out of EVERYDAY ENCOUNTERS WITH AUTHORITY : discrimination and INTIMIDATION on market days, CORRUPTION OF POLICE demanding bribes or ‘fines’ for minor or imagined offences, the rumoured burning of maize plots by parks service agents. Alongside these common forms of violence that MIKEA were accustomed to, there were INTENSIFYING CONCERNS about the future due to recent processes of change affecting the region, including the establishment of a new restrictive conservation area, ongoing drought, the GRANTING OF LARGE MINING CONCESSIONS and the increasing risk of ARMED BANDITRY and CATTLE THEFT in rural areas.
(Hofaranana)