Korean women farmers on the Daewoo/Madagascar land deal

Interview with Han Young Me, Chief of Policy, Korean Women Peasants Association (KWPA)
Dae-gu, South Korea, 4 December 2008

Daewoo Logistics is a subsidiary of the South Korean conglomerate Daewoo Corporation. In November 2008, world media reported that it was securing rights to 1.3 million hectares of farmland in Madagascar -- half the country's arable soils. The company intends to produce corn for export back to Korea. Daewoo said the deal is meant to assure Korea's food security. They described food as a weapon, and boasted that their job was to be able to ship food to Korea in case of crisis. A lot of people around the world were shocked by this news and called it neocolonialism.

GRAIN sat down with Han Young Me of the Korean Women Peasants Alliance to learn what Korean farmers think of the Daewoo deal and of the Korean government's overall push to have corporations go abroad to produce the country's food.

TAKEN FROM http://www.grain.org/videos/?id=194