Foreign tuna fishing companies, mostly from Asia, have been exploiting Madagascar’s waters since the 1950s. The bloc that is now the European Union joined the hunt in 1986 and didn’t stop for decades, renewing its deal with Madagascar every few years. Yet when the last Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Agreement (SFPA), as the deals are now […]
This is part three of a three-article series on industrial fishing in Madagascar’s waters. Part one looked at offshore fishing; part two focused on a new exclusive-access zone for small-scale fishers. Earlier this year, there was an unusual stoppage: in March and April, normally the heart of Madagascar’s shrimp fishing season, the nation’s trawlers remained […]
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Rahovatae and her family are among over a million Madagascans in need of food in a vast area spread over 110,000 square kilometres (42,000 square miles) around the size of Virginia or New Zealand s North Island Look at my child please help us! cries the woman.
She hurriedly undresses the five-year-old girl, uncovering gaunt arms and ribs that are painfully visible under the skin.
The child allows herself to be pulled around before starting to shake.
The mother and her daughter live in the famine-stricken region of Anosy in Madagascar s far south.
Penniless, they have another 10 kilometres (six miles) to walk from the village of Fenoaivo to the nearest health centre.