Facing a severe famine, people in Madagascar are trying to survive by selling their belongings for food, harvesting cactus leaves, and eating the locusts that descend on their failing crops.

“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 ...

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 ...

If you visit the southwest corner of Madagascar, you might find a tree so old its name is Grandmother. She has three stems, fused together, so that her trunk resembles a massive rounded pot rather ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

THE PEOPLE of southern Madagascar are in peril ... Many families are eking out their meagre diets with cactus. And the suffering is due to increase with the start of the “lean season ...

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 ...