{"id":2983,"date":"2009-01-25T18:14:45","date_gmt":"2009-01-25T17:14:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/index.php\/2009\/01\/25\/kenya-les-fleurs-de-la-desillusion\/"},"modified":"2009-01-28T18:21:25","modified_gmt":"2009-01-28T17:21:25","slug":"kenya-les-fleurs-de-la-desillusion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/2009\/01\/25\/kenya-les-fleurs-de-la-desillusion\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya : Les fleurs de la d\u00e9sillusion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.france2.fr\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"090128_flowers.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/newTemplate\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/090128_flowers.jpg\" title=\"090128_flowers.jpg\" alt=\"090128_flowers.jpg\" align=\"right\" \/><\/a>Vall\u00e9e du rift, au centre du Kenya. A 2 300 m\u00e8tres d\u2019altitude, des gigantesques serres se c\u00f4toient le long d\u2019une route d\u00e9fonc\u00e9e qui encercle le lac Naivasha. A 80 kilom\u00e8tres au sud de l\u2019\u00e9quateur, la r\u00e9gion abrite l\u2019une des plus vastes zones de production de roses au monde. La floriculture est le nouvel eldorado du Kenya, le premier fournisseur de roses de l\u2019Europe. En 2007 et 2008, les fleurs repr\u00e9sentaient 45% des exportations du pays, pour un chiffre d\u2019affaires de 400 millions de dollars d\u00e9gag\u00e9 par les Soci\u00e9t\u00e9s occidentales<span>  <\/span>\u00c2\u00ab BIGOT FLEURS \u00c2\u00bb<span>  <\/span>et \u00c2\u00ab KINGFISHER FARM \u00c2\u00bb. Rares sont pourtant les consommateurs fran\u00e0\u00a7ais n\u00e9erlandais et britaniques<span>  <\/span>\u00e0\u00a0 se douter que quelques roses achet\u00e9es au march\u00e9, ont \u00e9t\u00e9 cueillies 48 heures plus t\u00f4t dans les hauts plateaux de l\u2019Afrique de l\u2019Est\u2026 Lodges somptueux, r\u00e9serves animales, ensoleillement maximum : le cadre de la \u00c2\u00ab vall\u00e9e des roses \u00c2\u00bb est digne d\u2019une carte postale africaine. Et pour 50 000 Kenyans accourus des r\u00e9gions les plus pauvres du pays, cette province est synonyme de &#8220;vall\u00e9e du bonheur&#8221;, une opportunit\u00e9 unique d\u2019\u00e9chapper \u00e0\u00a0 la mis\u00e8re. Une chance qui comporte aussi ses revers. Les conditions de travail sont souvent d\u00e9cri\u00e9es, les faibles salaires( 1 dollar par jour) critiqu\u00e9s. Les impacts sur l\u2019environnement suscitent \u00e9galement la controverse, notamment par la baisse continuelle du niveau du Lac Naivasha qui est en train de dispara\u00e0\u00aetre. Pour les oiseaux et les hypopotames, la menace est bien r\u00e9elle. Pour nombre d\u2019employ\u00e9s entass\u00e9s dans les bidonvilles autour des serres, les fleurs de l\u2019espoir sont surtout les fleurs de la d\u00e9sillusion. Image: cache.daylife.com<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial\" lang=\"EN-GB\">Message received by Covalence | Country: Kenya<\/span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style=\"font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial\" lang=\"EN-GB\"><\/span><\/st1:place><\/st1:country-region><span style=\"font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial\" lang=\"EN-GB\"> | Company: <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%\" lang=\"EN-US\">Bigot Fleurs, Kingfisher Farms<\/span> <span lang=\"FR\"><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial\"><span style=\"color: black\"><\/span> | Source: <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.camer.be\/index1.php?art=4178\" target=\"_blank\">France T\u00e9l\u00e9vision, <\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.france2.fr\/\"><span style=\"line-height: 115%\">Envoy\u00e9 Sp\u00e9cial<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial\" lang=\"EN-GB\"> | Correspondent: <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial\"><a href=\"mailto:fuldep@yahoo.fr\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Barth\u00e9l\u00e9my Kilosho, FULDEP<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vall\u00e9e du rift, au centre du Kenya. A 2 300 m\u00e8tres d\u2019altitude, des gigantesques serres se c\u00f4toient le long d\u2019une route d\u00e9fonc\u00e9e qui encercle le lac Naivasha. A 80 kilom\u00e8tres au sud de l\u2019\u00e9quateur, la r\u00e9gion abrite l\u2019une des plus vastes zones de production de roses au monde. La floriculture est le nouvel eldorado du&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":665,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_post_series":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"post_series":[],"class_list":["post-2983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-messages","entry","no-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/665"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2983\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2983"},{"taxonomy":"post_series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_series?post=2983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}