Madagascar, a large island adrift the coast of Africa in the Indian Ocean, known primarily as a natural paradise, is actually one of the 10 most vulnerable countries in the world to climate disasters, and the most exposed country in Africa to increasingly intense and frequent cyclones. The combination of all these climate stresses, mixed with poor development and prevention policies, generates numerous problems for the Malagasy population, which is already heavily affected by a continuous increase in the absolute poverty rate. The price of basic food products such as rice, corn, fish, and water undergoes constant annual inflation.

In the "Grand Sud," consecutive years of drought have made subsistence agriculture impossible, which characterizes the country and forced most villages to engage in illegal production of charcoal, timber, and slash-and-burn agriculture that have led to the destruction of 90% of the country's original rainforests.

Due to the advancing desertification with increasing drought, according to an estimate by the World Food Programme, 1.47 million people in southern Madagascar need emergency food and nutritional assistance. In the inland areas, more and more Malagasy are forced to abandon their original villages and migrate to the slums of the capital, Antananarivo, or along the coast, trying to survive through fishing. Here, however, the rising ocean temperatures, acidification of water, overfishing, and growth of the Andaboy dune system have produced the death of 75% of the 3rd largest coral reef in the world off Toliara in the Atsimo-Andrefana region, further reducing the availability of fish in the Mozambique Channel.

At the hunger border of Andranavory, as well as in all other areas of the "kere," famine, due to climate change, increasingly increases cases of Lyme disease, diarrhea, and malaria, contributing to exacerbating a social context in which especially the younger generations are particularly affected.