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MADAGASCAR is facing the world’s first climate crisis induced famine with more than a million people facing starvation, the United Nations’ food aid agency has warned.
The World Food Programme (WFP) said that “famine conditions” are now present in southern parts of the island country and warned that other parts of the world can expect the same in the future.
The WFP has scaled up ration and nutrition programmes for next month during what the UN has called the “peak of lean season.”
Coal-fired stoves in traditional homes are the primary source of extreme levels of air pollution in over-crowded Ulaanbaatar. As more people become climate-displaced, the situation is likely to worsen, write SCIENCE AND SOCIETY
