Madagascar: No Land Deal with South Koreans

As much as I despise the process that put Andry Rajoelina in power in Madagascar, I do applaud his decision to nix the deal to lease a large tract of land to a South Korean firm for the purposes of growing corn, not for the Malagasy people but for the South Korean people. This corn would have been grown and taken thousands of miles while people were starving right there.
I propose that the authorities invest in the necessary infrastructure to turn that same tract of land into a field to grow crops meant for domestic consumption. If the Koreans wanted the land it's because they knew it could be done. The Malagasy authorities need to turn that land into what the Koreans wanted to turn it into.
African land should be used to provide for the African people, first and foremost, and then for the rest of the world.