This is the fourth year that drought has devastated Aly’s home in southern Madagascar. Climate change is battering the Indian Ocean island and several U.N. agencies have warned in the past few months of a “climate change famine” here. “Climate change strongly impacts and strongly accentuates the famine in Madagascar,” President Andry Rajoelina said while visiting the worst-affected areas earlier this month. Half a million children are expected to be acutely malnourished in southern Madagascar, 110,000 severely so, the U.N. Children’s Fund says, causing developmental delays, disease and death. Nutriset, a French company that produces emergency food Plumpy’Nut, opened a plant in southern Madagascar last week.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer October 11, 2021 06:56 UTC