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Children starve in parched southern Madagascar

SOURCE: DIGG • 2009-11-22
TOPICS: Poverty • Humanitarian Aid • Public Health • African Union Member States • African Countries • Drought • Malnutrition • Deforestation • Environment

[85 diggs @ Travel & Places] As temperatures rise, drought, crop failure and deforestation have combined to create a crisis of malnutrition. Madagascar's rainfall has decreased 10% in the last 50 years, its temp has risen 10% and it has lost 90% of its forests. 1.5 million pe... read more »

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