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Madagascar is suffering from a climate change famine

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“People have had to resort to desperate survival measures, such as eating locusts, raw red cactus fruits, or wild leaves,” Amer Daoudi, senior director at WFP Image: REUTERS/Mussa Qawasma

Samanth Subramanian
Senior Reporter, Quartz
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The browned parts of this map of southern Madagascar show how rainfall between June 2020 and July 2021 was as much as 25% below the 2000-2015 average. Image: NASA
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