The World Food Program reports successive years of extreme weather events have plunged thousands of people in Madagascar into what WFP officials say is the world’s first climate-induced famine.

Communities in Madagascar are on the verge of starvation. That’s according to the World Food Programme, which says resources are scarce in the country after the worst drought in four decades.

The WFP warns weather extremes will trigger runaway humanitarian needs if Madagascar does not address the climate crisis. Phiri says WFP staff is in a race against time to assist those affected.

Thousands in southern Madagascar have left their homes in search of food, while those who remain are resorting to extreme measures such as foraging for wild food to survive, the WFP said.

WFP said $78.6 million was needed to fight the crisis. "Families have been living on raw red cactus fruits, wild leaves and locusts for months now," Beasley said.

The World Food Program, 2020 winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, says that 1.5 million people in southern Madagascar need emergency food aid, but WFP does not have enough funding to feed all the ...

Right now the U.N. World Food Program is feeding 200,000 children in southern Madagascar with school meals, but many more need to be reached.

Madagascar produces 0.01 percent of the world’s annual carbon emissions, but it is suffering some of the worst effects, with unreliable rains and crop failures. Meanwhile, the WFP executive ...

At least half a million children face acute malnourishment in drought-hit southern Madagascar, causing irreversible damage to their growth and development, the UN World Food Programme (WFP) and ...

People in Madagascar struggle to live in famine-like conditions due to climate change effects. This photo made available by the World Food Program on November 2, 2021, shows a woman doing her ...

WFP needs about $75 million for Madagascar. What you do can make a difference. You could donate to the WFP, which will help it provide food in Madagascar and many other countries on the brink of ...

The United Nations’ World Food Programme (WFP) has appealed for emergency aid of $35m to fight hunger in southern Madagascar, hit by the coronavirus pandemic and a third consecutive year of drought.