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A girl eats a food supplement distributed during a malnutrition screening session organized by the NGO Action Contre la Faim and the World Food Program (WFP) in the municipality of Ifotaka, Madagascar, on December 14, 2018. The entire southern part of Madagascar has been caught up in a drought that has made water increasingly scarce, wrecking even efforts to grow rice--the staple food. (Photo: RIJASOLO/AFP via Getty Images)
Climate experts are warning the current extreme food shortage in southern Madagascar, following a dearth of rain for the last four years, has driven the country to the brink of the world's first famine driven almost entirely by the climate emergency.
"Everyone should have a safe place to live. Wealthy countries must step up and cut emissions now."
--Environmental Justice Foundation
\u201c#Madagascar is on the brink of experiencing the world's first "climate change famine".\n\nThis is unprecedented. \n\nWe are living in a #ClimateEmergency. Our leaders need to take decisive action to reverse it.\n\n#ClimateJustice https://t.co/42QxOHYI1J\u201d— Greenpeace (@Greenpeace) 1629896458
In the town of Amboasary Atsimo, about 75 per cent of the population is facing severe hunger and 14,000 people are on the brink of famine.This is what the real consequences of climate change look like, and the people here have done nothing to deserve this. Nevertheless, I have seen that they are ready to take up the challenge, with our immediate and medium-term support, and get back on their feet.[...]
[T]hese people have been significantly affected by sandstorms; all of their croplands are silted up, and they cannot produce anything.
"We are in danger of seeing people who have endured the prolonged drought enter the lean season without the means to eat, without money to pay for health services, or to send their children to school, to get clean water, and even to get seeds to plant for the next agricultural season," Sanogo said. "If we don't act soon, we will face a much more severe humanitarian crisis."
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Climate experts are warning the current extreme food shortage in southern Madagascar, following a dearth of rain for the last four years, has driven the country to the brink of the world's first famine driven almost entirely by the climate emergency.
"Everyone should have a safe place to live. Wealthy countries must step up and cut emissions now."
--Environmental Justice Foundation
\u201c#Madagascar is on the brink of experiencing the world's first "climate change famine".\n\nThis is unprecedented. \n\nWe are living in a #ClimateEmergency. Our leaders need to take decisive action to reverse it.\n\n#ClimateJustice https://t.co/42QxOHYI1J\u201d— Greenpeace (@Greenpeace) 1629896458
In the town of Amboasary Atsimo, about 75 per cent of the population is facing severe hunger and 14,000 people are on the brink of famine.This is what the real consequences of climate change look like, and the people here have done nothing to deserve this. Nevertheless, I have seen that they are ready to take up the challenge, with our immediate and medium-term support, and get back on their feet.[...]
[T]hese people have been significantly affected by sandstorms; all of their croplands are silted up, and they cannot produce anything.
"We are in danger of seeing people who have endured the prolonged drought enter the lean season without the means to eat, without money to pay for health services, or to send their children to school, to get clean water, and even to get seeds to plant for the next agricultural season," Sanogo said. "If we don't act soon, we will face a much more severe humanitarian crisis."
Climate experts are warning the current extreme food shortage in southern Madagascar, following a dearth of rain for the last four years, has driven the country to the brink of the world's first famine driven almost entirely by the climate emergency.
"Everyone should have a safe place to live. Wealthy countries must step up and cut emissions now."
--Environmental Justice Foundation
\u201c#Madagascar is on the brink of experiencing the world's first "climate change famine".\n\nThis is unprecedented. \n\nWe are living in a #ClimateEmergency. Our leaders need to take decisive action to reverse it.\n\n#ClimateJustice https://t.co/42QxOHYI1J\u201d— Greenpeace (@Greenpeace) 1629896458
In the town of Amboasary Atsimo, about 75 per cent of the population is facing severe hunger and 14,000 people are on the brink of famine.This is what the real consequences of climate change look like, and the people here have done nothing to deserve this. Nevertheless, I have seen that they are ready to take up the challenge, with our immediate and medium-term support, and get back on their feet.[...]
[T]hese people have been significantly affected by sandstorms; all of their croplands are silted up, and they cannot produce anything.
"We are in danger of seeing people who have endured the prolonged drought enter the lean season without the means to eat, without money to pay for health services, or to send their children to school, to get clean water, and even to get seeds to plant for the next agricultural season," Sanogo said. "If we don't act soon, we will face a much more severe humanitarian crisis."