MIkama - June 26, 2014

Sur le site du gouvernement canadien
Quick Facts
- Canada’s Global Markets Action Plan identifies Madagascar as an emerging market with specific opportunities for Canadian businesses.
- Two-way merchandise trade between Canada and Madagascar reached $119 million in 2013. Canada imports mainly ores, coffee, and clothing and accessories. Top Canadian merchandise exports to Madagascar include machinery (mainly taps and valves), miscellaneous textile articles, electric machinery and equipment, and coins.
- In 2013, Madagascar’s GDP was estimated at $11.5 billion, an increase of 16.9 percent over the previous year.

Dans The Daily and Sunday Express
Top 10 facts about Madagascar
2. Madagascar has been an island since about 88 million years ago when it split from India after the supercontinent Gondwana had broken up.
3. Because of its isolation, more than 80 per cent of the plants and animal species found on Madagascar are seen nowhere else on Earth.
6. Ninety per cent of the people in Madagascar live on less than two dollars a day.
7. There are more than 100 species and sub-species of lemurs in Madagascar.
8. The first human settlers in Madagascar are thought to have arrived around 350BC in canoes from Borneo.
9. About 80 per cent of the world’s vanilla comes from Madagascar.

Antony Sguazzin dans Blooomberg Businessweek
Madecasse, a Brooklyn-based chocolate manufacturer, urged Madagascar’s government to provide more information to cocoa farmers on how to grow the crop to help boost production. Growers need to be assisted with setting up nurseries and shown how to process the crop to help produce “fine” cocoa
, amid growing demand for “superior quality” beans, said Michael Chauveau, a program manager for the company.

TaSin Sabir dans BayView National Black Newspaper
At a young age I was aware of the importance of knowing your heritage, but school history lessons had only gotten me as far as being stolen from somewhere in African and brought to America. I needed more; I needed to find my home. That day in class when I saw the Malagasy faces that had my smile and wore their hair like mine, I was overwhelmed with a sense of familiarity and finally having a place to call home. (..) : “Madagascar Made” is a visually stunning book filled with rich imagery that connects the viewer to life in Madagascar.

Cara Brook dans National Geographic
Cara Brook is a Disease Ecologist studying in the Andrew Dobson Lab at Princeton. She currently studies the great bats of Madagascar—flying foxes—and the diseases they carry that could spill over onto humans. She has just arrived back in Madagascar for another epic journey of both biology and self-deepening. (..) I’m a different, deeper person in Madagascar, and it is to commune with that person that I seek out my field site.