Mikama - Feb 26, 2018

Hanitra R. dans Midi Madagasikara

C’est un projet de cinq ans en faveur de l’amélioration de l’accès à l’Eau, à l’Assainissement et à l’Hygiène à Madagascar, à mettre en œuvre dans la partie Est et sur les Hautes terres. Ce projet, baptisé RANO WASH (« Rural Access to New Opportunities in Water, Sanitation and Hygiene », signifiant « accès des zones Rurales à l’eau, à l’assainissement et à l’hygiène »), est un projet de l’Agence des Etats-Unis pour le Développement International (USAID), dont la mise en œuvre nécessitera un financement de 30 million de dollars. (..) Plus de 600.000 personnes au total, profiteront du projet, dont 300.000 auront accès à l’eau potable à travers 140 réseaux de distribution, gérés par des entreprises locales formées par le projet. 375.000 autres personnes pourront bénéficier d’un meilleur assainissement grâce aux travaux d’amélioration et de réhabilitation des blocs sanitaires. 190 structures publiques, dont des centres de santé et des écoles, figurent parmi celles qui recevront ces installations sanitaires améliorées.

Dans the Guardian
Toxic toad invasion puts ecology of Madagascar at risk. The Asian amphibians arrived just 10 years ago. Now in their millions, they threaten the island’s unique wildlife... They breed prodigiously. One female toad spawns an estimated 10,000 to 40,000 eggs – by comparison some indigenous frogs lay no more than 10. There are now said to be between 7 million and 21 million toads in Toamasina and their number and range grows every year. (..) With every day that passes, the cost rises. Calculations by the James Reardon, an eradication expert with New Zealand’s Department of Conservation, who co-authored a study on the subject, show the invasion could have been eradicated for $5,000 (£3,600) if the toads had been detected at the border a decade ago. Even a year or two later, they could have been destroyed for $500,000. Today, elimination is considered impossible and it would cost several million dollars even to control the spread.

Dans Relief Web
Fall Army Worm (FAW): FAW was first reported in Madagascar at the beginning of November 2017 in five municipalities of two districts (Tulear II and Morombe) in south-western regions. The crops at risks are maize, black eye peas, groundnuts. Under the leadership of the Ministry of Agriculture, a Task Force assigned to the fight against FAW proliferation was established in January 2018. To date, the presence of FAW is reported in 14 out of the 22 Regions of Madagascar. Most of them are major food crop producing areas. About 250,000 hectares of maize fields are at risk in the affected regions.