Life Brought Me Here.’ An Island Nation Adapts to a Changing Climate

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By Lynsey Chutel

Photographs by Joao Silva

Nov. 17, 2022

AMBOVOMBE-ANDROY, Madagascar — From the time she was a young bride, all Taliasoa Vaolina knew was planting beans and corn to feed her family in their village in Madagascar. But three years ago, the worst drought in a generation set in.

Soon her crops had shriveled, her family was starving, and she had to find a new way to survive.

Madagascar, the world’s fourth poorest country, has in the last three years been strangled by drought and battered by successive cyclones and tropical storms that have only become more powerful in a changing climate.

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