It is the first famine caused by global warming due to human activities.
Man-made global warming is the cause of the famine affecting Madagascar, the first of its kind but not the last, a World Food Program (WFP) official warned on Tuesday.
Aduino Mangoni, WFP Deputy Director in Madagascar, highlighted by videoconference, during a United Nations briefing in Geneva, that 30,000 people suffer from famine in the southern half of the island – affected by a drought unprecedented for 40 years. – and more than 1.3 million suffer from acute malnutrition.
According to him, it is the first famine caused by global warming due to human activities.
It is also “the only famine related to climate change on Earth,” he insisted, stressing that those affecting Yemen, South Sudan and the Ethiopian region of Tigré today are all caused by conflicts.
“The situation is very worrying,” he said, describing the children, “who only have skin on their bones,” whom he met at a nutrition center during a recent trip to the most affected region.
The next harvest cannot take place for another six months and the situation can only get worse until then, he warned, recalling that 500,000 children already suffer from malnutrition, 110,000 of them seriously or acutely and are one step away from death.
WFP needs $ 69 million to launch the necessary assistance in the next six months.
In the extreme south of the island, 91% of the population lives in poverty and the drought has destroyed the agricultural and fishing production capacity that families depend on for their survival, a report prepared by Amnesty International recently highlighted. (I)
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