“Food insecurity affects 1.64 million Malagasy people”
Traveling to Madagascar, the Minister for External Relations made a complete inventory of the privileged partnership that Monaco maintains with its first country of cooperation.
In addition to the signature of 1uh Framework cooperation agreement between Monaco and Madagascar, Isabelle Berro-Amadeï’s visit highlighted the urgent needs of the Malagasy people, victims of an unprecedented famine (see below).
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In particular, meetings took place with the World Food Programme, the Institut Pasteur, GRET and local associations, such as SISAL, supported by the international solidarity organization “Fight Aids Monaco”.
Madagascar is the first country in the world whose current famine has been recognized as directly linked to climate change by the United Nations
Isabelle Berro-Amadei
The Monegasque delegation led by Isabelle Berro-Amadeï also went to the Nutrisud factory, in Fort-Dauphin, in the south-east of the Big Island. This event marked the launch of the “Mitombo” project, which produces local food supplements for actors fighting against malnutrition in the Androy and Anosy regions, in the south of the island.
A country ravaged by famine
“Food insecurity affects 1.64 million Malagasy people in the Great South of the island alone, and half of the country’s children under five are stuntedconfides the Minister of Foreign Relations. You should know that Madagascar is the first country in the world whose current famine has been recognized as directly linked to climate change by the United Nations. »
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An unprecedented tragedy due to two consecutive years of separation which led the Principality to support the Mérieux Foundation, whose local production plant of food supplements in Fort Dauphin is of capital importance for the vulnerable populations of Greater South of the island and especially the children.