A general view of a sisal plantation near Amboasary Atsimo on the National Road 13 (RN13), on August 30, 2021. - The sisal plantations in this part of Madagascar cover several thousand hectares and are still the most important economic activity in the region. The sisal fibre is exported abroad for the textile industry. The RN13 that links the city of Fort-Dauphin on the Southeast coast and the city of Toliara on the Southwest coast. In the South of Madagascar, the national roads are mostly very bad and this is a real obstacle to the economic development of the region. For several decades the South-East of Madagascar has been a victim of the "Kere" phenomenon, as the local population calls it. Kere is the food crisis due to a period of intense drought that causes a sudden stop of the cultivation of crops by the farmers for several months each year. The farmers are left without money and in a situation of "severe malnutrition" or even starvation. (Photo by RIJASOLO / AFP)