Madagascar's Parched South Grows Hungrier

In the south of the island, where many people farm for a living, the rainy season is getting shorter and shorter, they say. Rains that once stretched from October to March now fall only between December and February.

A view of a village in southern Madagascar's Ambovombe region, November 9, 2017.

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