In Madagascar, hunger has already left people eating raw red cactus fruits, wild leaves, even the very locusts that helped decimate crops. The southern part of the country is experiencing its ...

AMBOVOMBE, MADAGASCAR -- "Kere" is a word that echoes ... "I have seen people eating cactus leaves, insects, and surviving upon nothing, and the lack of water is probably the most striking element ...

“It’s been one year that we have been eating the leaves of the cactus,” said the woman in the stick house, Tonelie. Like many here, she has only one name. Nearly 850,000 people in Madagascar ...

Thousands in southern Madagascar have left their homes in search ... Families have been living on raw red cactus fruits, wild leaves and locusts for months now. We can’t turn our backs on ...

People have taken to eating cactus leaves, which usually are cattle fodder, the U.N. food agency said. “Madagascar is not an isolated incident,” Beasley said. ”The world needs to look to ...

Madagascar’s government agrees it is a result ... did everything she could to keep her children alive. “I fed cactus fruit and wild leaves to my children,” she says, holding her two-year ...

Madagascar is facing the prospect of more frequent ... a settlement of some two dozen scattered mud and thatched-roof huts, are on a rocky cactus-lined track. Fruits from the prickly pear cactus ...

Photography by Renato Granieri In theory, Madagascar has a lot to lament ... smoke bellows from a fire a boy is using to burn needles from cactus paddles, rendering them safe to use as fodder ...

The cactus grew on a low limestone outcrop surrounded ... threatened with extinction." MORE: Madagascar faces millions of years of extinctions due to human activity, scientists say The importance ...