With precious few trees left to slow the wind in this once fertile corner of southern Madagascar, red sand is blowing everywhere: onto fields, villages and roads, and into the eyes of children waiting for food aid parcels.
The once-green and fertile part of Madagascar turned into a dust bowl due to four consecutive years of drought.
"There are seven, so there wasn't enough food. The Plumpy wasn't enough for him," she said, holding Avoraza by his thin arm. "We used to call Madagascar the green island, but sadly now it is more of a red island," said Soja Lahimaro Tsimandilatse, governor of the southern Androy region.A woman fills a plastic canister with water at a road stop in the Sampona commune, Madagascar, Feb. 11, 2022.
The United Nations' IPCC climate change panel says increased aridity is already being observed in Madagascar and forecasts that droughts will increase. At the height of the food crisis in the south, the WFP warned the island was at risk of seeing"the world's first climate change famine". "When you look in the villages, you see children running left and right. That wasn't the case before," he said.A woman holds part of a dead corn plant in a field covered with red sand, in Anjeky Beanatara, Madagascar, Feb. 11, 2022.
But in rural areas where people live in dire poverty, some of the trends that contributed to the crisis are still present.
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A green island turns red: Madagascans struggle through long droughtWith precious few trees left to slow the wind in this once fertile corner of southern Madagascar, red sand is blowing everywhere: onto fields, villages and roads, and into the eyes of children waiting for food aid parcels.
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