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Emergency operations scaled-up in Madagascar after 3 years of drought
06.10.2016 09:17 "Agro Perspectiva" (Kyiv) —
Emergency operations are being scaled-up in southern Madagascar, UN Radio says referring to the World Food Programme (WFP) report.
As to the report, these operations follow three consecutive years of drought and ruined harvests, which have led to rising levels of hunger and malnutrition.
«There are communes where 96% of people are in a situation of food-insecurity and on top of this you have three years of drought. You can imagine what that causes, you have situations where families have to sell everything they have in order to feed themselves as best they can,» WFP spokesperson in Madagascar, Andre Vornic, admits.
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