vue - Locust plague threatens to trigger severe food crisis in Madagascar

www.fao.org/emergencies Locusts have already infested over half of the island nation's cultivated land and livestock pastures Some 13 million people's food security and livelihoods are at stake, or nearly 60 percent of the island's total population. Nine million of those people are directly dependent on agriculture for food and income. Reportage (in French) provided to FAO by Agence France Presse June 2013 © FAO: http://www.fao.org