Głód na Madagaskarze - AFP
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Mrs. Maho (L), 60 years old, and her husband Jonarson Revoria, 73 years old, farmer, stand in front of their house in the village of Ankilidoga, Commune of Sampona, on August 31, 2021. - Jonarson Revoria usually grows peanuts, cassava, sweet potatoes or corn. But this year he could not produce anything because of the drought. He has a small basin dug in the ground to collect rainwater, but it has not been filled since July 2021. Today his wife and prepare "anamafaitsy" leaves for lunch, a kind of weed that they boil with a lot of salt to remove the bitterness. They have no rice to accompany this meal. 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)
2021-08-31
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