The country’s economy growth for 2017 is estimated at 4.2% and projected at 5.0% in 2018, according to the bank’s latest economic update for the country, released yesterday. (..) The poverty headcount, based on $1.50 a day line, is projected to lower from 75% in 2018 to 73% in 2020, if the growth is inclusive.
Dans Relief Web
Poor and very poor households in the southwest (primarily Livelihood Zone 23) are experiencing Crisis (IPC Phase 3) acute food insecurity because of below normal agricultural production which caused stocks to deplete earlier than normal and households to atypically rely more on markets that are supplied with food from outside the zone that are more expensive. In the far south (primarily Livelihood Zone 24), food access improved after the sweet potato harvest, but food consumption gaps will persist due to below normal production keeping the area in Crisis (IPC Phase 3) in the west and in Stressed (IPC Phase 2) in east of the zone.
Dans The Guardian
There are nine species of baobab in the world, and Madagascar, one of the world’s biodiversity hotspots, is home to six. (..) Some of the most impressive trees from back then are still around, those from Madagascar especially: for example, the Adansonia grandidieri, or giant baobab, which can reach a height of 30m. It remains the most famous species of baobab in Madagascar. The rarest baobab species in Madagascar are the Adansonia perrieri and A. suarezensis.
All three of these species are threatened and are on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, and recent assessments have suggested that the latter two species be reclassified as critically endangered. A. perrieri’s habitat is being lost to agriculture and development, whereas A. suarezensis’s biggest threats to survival are lightning, water logging, black fungus and drought. To make matters worse, the large animal species responsible for carrying seeds may have become extinct and hence reduced the wider distribution of the plant species.
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