Download logoTropical Cyclone Batsirai, is expected to strike the Atsinanana region of Madagascar tomorrow, only weeks after tropical storm Ana wreaked
Madagascar is experiencing its worst drought in four decades, with 14,000 people just a step away from famine. Scientists have found that the root cause of the crisis is not climate change but natural weather patterns and poverty made worse by the pandemic.
Madagascar was thought to be facing one of the world's first climate-induced famines but new data suggests global warming is playing only a small role in surging hunger there, with poverty, COVID-19 and natural rain variability the key drivers.