Madagascar’s food crisis: Chronic malnutrition is stunting mental capacity
By Simon Allison —
On the surface, this is a story about food, and Madagascar. But it’s actually about something else entirely. It’s about how generations of Malagasy children have been systematically denied their full mental potential by poor nutrition and worse governance, and how the next generation is suffering the same fate. Even worse: the problem is not confined to Madagascar
ANTANANARIVO – There are two food crises in Madagascar. The first is very obvious and distressing, but it can be fixed. The second is almost invisible – but has already had devastating, long-lasting consequences on the mental development of successive generations of Malagasy children. And the implications of what’s happening in Madagascar go far beyond the island itself, and cut to the core of inequality in the modern world.
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