193, Mamy Rakotondrainibe on opposing corporate land grabbing in Madagascar in 2023

Free City Radio

On this edition of Free City Radio we hear from Mamy Rakotondrainibe of the Collectif Tany pour la défense des terres malgaches who speaks on opposing corporate land grabbing in Madagascar. Essentially this is the coercive practice of collaborations between the government of Madagascar and international corporations who collude to displace peasant communities in Madagascar from their ancestral lands to create space for massive corporate agricultural projects that are focused on export mono crops. Mamy specifically speaks about the current 2023 battle against the Italian company "Tozzi Green which aims to lease 100 000 hectares in the Ihorombe region to mainly cultivate jatropha for agrofuel production." Read some background information on this reality here: https://friendsoftheearth.eu/news/investors-must-stop-land-grabbing Here is a past interview that I worked on featuring Mamy: https://www.farmlandgrab.org/post/view/18406-madagascar-community-resistance-to-corporate-land-theft Music on this edition is by Anarchist Mountains. Free City Radio is hosted and produced by Stefan @spirodon Christoff and airs on @radiockut 90.3FM at 11am on Wednesdays and @cjlo1690 AM in Tiohti:áke/Montréal on Tuesdays at 1pm. On @ckuwradio 95.9FM in Winnipeg at 10:30pm on Tuesdays. On @cfrc 101.9FM in Kingston, Ontario at 11:30am on Wednesdays. Also it broadcasts on @cfuv 101.9 FM in Victoria, BC on Wednesdays at 9am and Saturdays at 7am, as well as Met Radio 1280 AM in Toronto at 5:30am on Fridays. Now Free City Radio will also be broadcasting on CKCU FM 93.1 in Ottawa on Tuesdays at 2pm, tune-in!