First Person: Water and electricity ‘will save us from famine’

An initiative to rapidly develop villages in some of the most drought-prone and poorest rural areas of southern Madagascar could help people to avoid the danger of famine, according to people benefiting from a collaboration with the UN’s World Food Programme (WFP).

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First Person: Water and electricity ‘will save us from famine’

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