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The committee in charge of managing the stocks of rosewood of Madagascar, encompassing environmental organizations such as the WWF, Alliance Voahary Gasy, Madagascar National Parks, and the Foundation for the biodiversity and protected areas, is currently working closely with the World Bank so as to establish more transparency in the activity of managing rosewood stocks.  Since last year, the committee ... Read More »

As part of its objective of growing and distributing 240 000 young forest plants, the Ambatovy Project has started off its reforestation campaign for the year 2012-2013. As a start, 140 000 young plants are to be planted all along the areas where pipelines will be established through an intensive reforestation activity. Those areas consist of the rural Commune of Ambatovola, Ranomafana ... Read More »

Operating in the field of transportation and logistics, the Company Bolloré could survive throughout the years thanks to its strong sense of adaptation in front of the different socio-economic and political changes that happened in Madagascar. This company generally holds between 10 to 15% of the transit market in Madagascar. And despite the 2009 crisis which caused a sharp slowdown ... Read More »

In the year 2013, Madagascar hopes to increase its economic growth rate thanks to the mining industry. In fact, as is widely known, a few large mining projects are currently settled in the country which, according to economists, will surely contribute to the increase of at least 4% per year the total Gross Domestic Product. Although an economic growth is ... Read More »

Lately, pig farming in the capital of Vakinakaratra started to be threatened by a possible epidemic of plague. In fact, during the Christmas and New Year’s holidays, about 50 cases of the disease have been reported in some areas around Antsirabe. And according to some local health officials, a rapid expansion of the epidemic is highly feared in the course ... Read More »

After a few days visit in China, the Malagasy delegation of transporters, lead by the Head of the Presidential Cabinet of the Transition authority, Rija Rajhoson, accompanied by the Director of urban transportation of the Urban Commune of Antananarivo, was back in the country on December 29, 2012. The visit is part of the project of improving the service of ... Read More »

As widely known, compliance with the specifications statements is one of the biggest obligations of all mining companies in Madagascar. The company Kraoma has just fulfilled its social and economic engagement through the implementation of various infrastructures in some of the regions where it operates. Thanks to a fruitful public-private partnership, various infrastructures were inaugurated last week in the Betsiboka ... Read More »

Producing localities of the eastern, northern and south-western part of the country are the most hit by natural disasters during the rainy season, as reported by the CPGU, the prevention and emergency management committee of the Ministry of Agriculture. According to the figures provided by this committee, 10 million USD is needed annually to repair or renovate the damaged hydro-agricultural ... Read More »

As locusts continue to threaten more and more the southern and western regions of Madagascar, some regions of the highlands are also currently in the state of alert. Only last weekend, heavy locust swarms invaded the District of Fenoarivobe, taking its population by surprise. Hence, the latter used the only means they had at their disposal to mitigate the damage ... Read More »

Organized by the Consular Chamber of Itasy (CCI), the “Itasy Fair” is an exhibition event during which about twenty craftsmen from the Itasy Region promote their products. The event takes place at the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Antananarivo (CCIA) and lasts about a week. According to Andry Rakotoarisoa, Executive Manager of CCI, the objective of the fair is ... Read More »