AMBOASARY SUD, Madagascar: Some days, all Tsimamorekm Aly eats is sugary water. He's happy if there's a handful of rice. But with six young kids and a wife to support, he often goes without.
"Things have changed," he said, standing on an expanse of ochre dirt where the only green to be seen is tall, spiky cacti. Rainfall patterns in Madagascar are growing more erratic - they've been below average for nearly six years, said researchers at the University of California at Santa Barbara. Conflict has been a central cause of famine and hunger in countries such as Ethiopia, South Sudan, Somalia and Yemen, when fighting stopped people moving to find food. But Madagascar is at peace.
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