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MSF responds to a nutritional crisis in southern Madagascar
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Improving access to water is an important part of MSF's response. Madagascar 2021 © Ainga Razafy/MSF
This year, more than any other, the southeastern regions of Madagascar are suffering from drought and a prolonged lack of rain. In an area where most people rely on farming for food and income, the dry spell’s effect on the harvest has been devastating. It's the “*kéré,*” as the locals say, a term describing the lack of food and hunger.
“If the season is good, we grow rice and sweet potatoes,” said Mandilsoa, chief of the Kapila *fonkontany *(village) in Ranobe commune. “But there has been no rain for the last three years, so we can't cultivate anything. We hope that the rain will come, otherwise we will die.”

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