News release | 11 May 2021
Around 1.14 million people in the south of Madagascar are facing high levels of acute food insecurity, of which nearly 14 000 people are in ‘Catastrophe’ (Phase 5 – the highest in the five-step scale of the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC).
This is the first time that people have been recorded in Phase 5 in Madagascar since the IPC methodology was introduced in 2016.