{"id":20,"date":"2019-02-14T16:34:32","date_gmt":"2019-02-14T16:34:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moneyformadagascar.org\/?page_id=20"},"modified":"2025-09-05T16:33:57","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T16:33:57","slug":"what-we-do","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/moneyformadagascar.org\/mg\/what-we-do\/","title":{"rendered":"(English) What We Do"},"content":{"rendered":"

Miala tsiny fa tsy mbola misy amin'ny teny malagasy ity lahatsoratra ity.<\/p>

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Madagascar is the world’s fourth-poorest country. Eighty per cent of Malagasy people rely on farming – in many cases subsistence farming or day labour – to access food. Very nearly as many – 79.9 per cent – survive on just \u00a31.73 per day or less: the global poverty baseline.<\/h4>\n

More than one million Malagasy people are experiencing high levels of acute food insecurity. This term means they lack sufficient food to meet their basic needs, threatening their ability to work, and also their lives: the next \u2018level\u2019 of food shortage is famine.\u00a0Many, many more experience hunger every day, missing at least one meal: 50 per cent of Malagasy children suffer stunting due to malnutrition. One in ten do not reach their tenth birthday.<\/h4>\n

Simultaneously, the Malagasy rainforest is under serious pressure. Madagascar contains five per cent of all the world’s species of animals and plants. More than four in every five of those are only<\/em> found there.<\/h4>\n

But Madagascar has the world\u2019s fourth-highest rate of deforestation. It has already lost 80 per cent of its natural areas and loses around 200,000ha. to deforestation each year.\u00a0At the current rate of deforestation Madagascar\u2019s forests will be completely gone within 40 years.<\/h4>\n

And more than 3,900 Malagasy plant and animal species are threatened. The ‘level’ above ‘threatened’ is endangered: 600 species of flora and fauna are endangered. The ‘level’ above that is extinct.<\/strong><\/h4>\n

In response to these challenges,\u00a0Money for Madagascar:<\/h4>\n