20:00 25/08/2021
Madagascar is on the brink of the world's first climate change-induced hunger crisis. Thousands of people are surviving in catastrophic famine conditions after four years of drought, ranked as the worst in four decades.
Drought has devastated farming communities in the south of the country, forcing families to forage for insects to get something to eat. According to the United Nations, 30.000 people are experiencing level five, which is the most extreme for food insecurity.
"I clean the bugs as best I can, but there is no water. My children and I have been eating them since 8 months because there is nothing else to eat. Our livelihood depends on them”, said Tamaria, a single mother with four children.
"Today we have nothing to eat but cactus leaves", said a mother of three children. She revealed that her husband had died of starvation, just like many others before him. "What can I say? Our life is now only focused on searching for cactus leaves, again and again, to survive"./tvklan.al
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