Madagascar Citizens Face Big Impact From El Niño

Residents of southern Madagascar are preparing for the effects of the El Niño warming pattern that’s predicted to be the strongest ever recorded in coming months. Farmers have already seen the quality of crops decline due to the lack of rain, but the World Meteorological Organization says the risk of drought is greater.

It hasn’t rained much lately,” said farmer Bien Aimée Mampisaina. In the past, we would farm during the rainy season. The seasons are no longer the same at the same time of the year. When it is time for us to start farming, it does not rain. So we are forced to farm at a time when we should not be doing that, which results in our crops deteriorating and poor-quality seeds.”

El Niño started in October and has continued for months. Another worry for farmers is that their job is becoming more complex as water grows scarcer. Odile Mamenosoa, president of the Mifagnavotse Association, said: Because currently there is not much rain anymore, farming is getting more and more difficult, but we have to make a lot of effort because we want to feed. “We have to ask for boreholes and get pumps and generators to survive. It’s hard to get water, but we have to do our best because farming is our whole life.

The south of Madagascar is already hit by famine and climate change threatens to increase food insecurity. World Food Program workers are doing everything they can to help people at danger.

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