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Madagascar

Climate and Hunger in Madagascar
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Published on 20 November 2009
  • Poor village with baby
  • Drought
  • Charcoal
  • Close-up boy
  • Lemur
  • Mother and child
  • Tree planting
  • School meals
  • Drought river
  • Trouble everyday
Poor village with baby
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Poor village with baby Life is becoming ever more difficult for poor communities across southern Madagascar as droughts become more frequent – and more severe.
Drought
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Drought Serious droughts used to strike the region every ten years. Then it was every five years. Now it is every three. And some areas have suffered even greater hardship – with three dry years out of the past five.
Charcoal
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Charcoal Global warming and widespread local deforestation – partly due to illegal charcoal production – have contributed to a 10 percent rise in temperature and a 10 percent decrease in rainfall over the past 50 years.
Close-up boy
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Close-up boy A record 45 southern districts will face severe food shortages until April 2010, leaving tens of thousands of children wondering where their next meal is coming from
Lemur
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Lemur Hunger is forcing desperate families to break ancient taboos and eat lemurs as well as other bushmeat – pushing some of Madagascar’s flagship species to the brink of extinction.
Mother and child
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Mother and child Vola and the youngest of her eight children benefit from WFP’s supplementary feeding programme, which will provide additional nutrition to all 75,000 pregnant & lactating women and children under 2 in the worst affected districts.
Tree planting
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Tree planting With forests being cut down for fuel wood at a rapid rate, WFP is teaming up with the Worldwide Fund for Nature (WWF) on a number of projects to help communities enhance the local environment.
School meals
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School meals WFP has also expanded its school meals programme in the drought-affected south to reach 170,000 children – providing them with vital nutrition and a daily incentive to stay in school.
Drought river
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Drought river WFP’s food-for-work projects feed around 80,000 people and create crucial assets – such as this water basin in the village of Anjado – that will help vulnerable communities to cope better with the changing climate.
Trouble everyday
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Trouble everyday Along with the latest natural disaster, a political crisis has paralysed many government services and cut off much international development aid. But humanitarian assistance is still getting through – helping families to survive the current drought and to adapt to a drier, harsher future.
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