(English) Economy and ecology: Rajoelina sets priorities at UN

Désolé, cet article est seulement disponible en English. Malagasy President Andriy Rajoelina used his speech to the UN General Assembly to focus on the Malagasy economy, and its environment, noting both require and deserve help from beyond the Malagasy borders. Speaking at the UN General Assembly on Wednesday (24th September) Rajoelina said the African Growth and Opportunity Act, a…

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(English) Verraux’s lemur – an addition which could make a difference

Désolé, cet article est seulement disponible en English. Two lemurs have been added to the list of the 25 most-endangered primates on Earth. But there are hopes that one may spark new interest in and protection for, a vital ecological habitat. Madagascar is the only country on Earth to which lemurs are native, but 95 per cent of lemur…

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(English) Warnings for Malagasy Economy and People

Désolé, cet article est seulement disponible en English. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has concluded an in-country review of Madagascar’s economic situation with a warning that ‘outside shocks’ ‘cloud’ the country’s economic outlook. While the international financial body, which last year stepped in to provide Madagascar with and Extended Credit Facility (ECF) and a Resilience and Sustainability Facility (RSF),…

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(English) 90 per cent of Malagasy people living in poverty

Désolé, cet article est seulement disponible en English. On Thursday 5th June 2025, the World Bank updated its – and the world’s – poverty metric. Up to that date, the international poverty baseline – the line below which anyone is defined as living in poverty – had been an income of US$2.15 (£1.59 at 8th September 2025) or less…

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(English) On Love and Amphibians: the Extraordinary Importance of the Malagasy Wilderness

Désolé, cet article est seulement disponible en English. A new frog discovery in Madagascar’s South-East reminds us how resilient, but also how threatened, the Malagasy wilderness is. A large frog has been discovered in Madagascar’s Domain de la Cascade Plantation Lansargues nature reserve, in the country’s South-East. The three-inch amphibian, named Love’s Giant Stream Frog (after the herpetologist Bill…

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(English) MfM Partners in Dynamic, Innovative Nursery Workshop

Désolé, cet article est seulement disponible en English. Money for Madagascar is delighted to have been invited to participate in an innovative international tree-growth and care initiative. The Darwin Nursery Exchange Project is in its final year and its last ‘nurserymen workshop’ – designed to share best practice, experience and build networks in creating tree nurseries to enable reforestation…

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(English) MfM Joins Malagasy NGO Network

Désolé, cet article est seulement disponible en English. We at Money for Madagascar are proud to have become a member of the Population Health Environment Madagascar Network (PHE). The 88-member network unites health and environmental organisations, helping one another work with and for more than 830,000 men, women and children in remote and threatened areas. PHE helps organise peer…

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(English) Development and Environment: cooperation, not competition

Désolé, cet article est seulement disponible en English. Madagascar has led calls for Southern African nations to increase their manufacturing capacity to 30 per cent of their GDP by 2030. The island republic on Sunday (17th August) hosted the 45th Southern African Development Community (SADC) Summit of Heads of State and Government – the first time it has hosted…

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(English) The World Must Listen: the mental and physical impacts of climate catastrophe on Madagascar

Désolé, cet article est seulement disponible en English. Two reports in recent days have addressed the severity of climate catastrophe’s impact on Malagasy men, women and children. Amnesty International has issued an extremely critical report regarding the treatment of more than 90,000 Antandroy men, women and children who have been forced to flee the Androy region in Southern Madagascar…

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(English) Funding cuts hit Malagasy communities

Désolé, cet article est seulement disponible en English. ‘Bordeaux (who only wished to give his first name), a farmer with sharp features, does not know who Donald Trump is, but he knows that everything stopped for him in February. Suddenly, gone were the promises of a permanent house, enough seed for five years, fertilizers, farming equipment and technical support…

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