Madagascar, officially the Republic of Madagascar, and previously known as the Malagasy Republic, is an island country in the Indian Ocean, approximately 400 kilometres off the coast of East Africa across the Mozambique Channel.
During the era of Madagascar’s First Republic, France heavily influenced Madagascar’s economic planning and policy and served as its key trading partner. Key products were cultivated and distributed nationally through producers’ and consumers’ cooperatives. Government initiatives such as a rural development program and state farms were established to boost production of commodities such as rice, coffee, cattle, silk and palm oil.
For more than 60 years there have been two legal systems in Madagascar: traditional law based on local customs and French law. Some of these local customs included Dina as mentioned in Part I. Dina or community convention is known through oral tradition, although it is written down in some cases.
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