COMING UP: Taking you inside southern Madagascar — a region on the brink of the world's first climate change famine. DavidMuir reports with a special edition of ABCWorldNews from Glasgow, Scotland. How to help:
"World News Tonight" anchor David Muir takes a look at how the lives of people in Southern Madagascar are being drastically affected by climate change.AMBOVOMBE, MADAGASCAR --"Kere" is a word that echoes around southern Madagascar. It means hunger, and the people here know it all too well.
Arduino Mangoni, the deputy country director of the World Food Programme in Madagascar, told ABC News he had"never seen people, especially children, in this situation that we’re seeing here." "I have seen people eating cactus leaves, insects, and surviving upon nothing, and the lack of water is probably the most striking element," he said." anchor David Muir and his team traveled to Madagascar to report on the worsening situation, as aid organizations and the Malagasy government rush to fill in the gaps of food and water in this region.
Southern Madagascar is experiencing its worst drought in 40 years, making the land here too arid to farm and leading to crop failure. For the past four years, the severe lack of rain has led to depleted food sources and dried-up rivers. Climate change has also led to sandstorms affecting these lands, covering formerly arable land and rendering it infertile.
"As they cannot plant, it’s affecting their food security," Patrick Vercammen, the World Food Programme's emergency coordinator here, told Muir during a visit to Akanka Fokotany, an affected village."Having sandstorms in this kind of landscape is not something usual and having the effects of sandstorms shows that nature is changing, the environment is changing, and the
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