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Petriky

Soarahy
Soarahy, 50, is struggling just to feed her family. In the past, "the rice harvest was a special moment" and fish catches provided more than the family could eat.

Kazy
Kazy, 50, reports that there has been no rain for a year and food crops have failed. In the end, she and her husband let their cattle graze the dried-up plants.

Zanaboatsy
Zanaboatsy, 58, has two adult disabled daughters still living with him. He feels strongly that the impact of mining activity has robbed him of opportunity to "provide a better future for my family".

Ambinanibe

Sambo
Sambo is 46 years old.  His life "used to be good, like everyone else's in the village". But then they lost access to their best fishing grounds

Jean-Claude
Jean-Claude, 39, is clear that by accepting cash for land his community has lost "sustainability" and become vulnerable and dependent on others.

Rosette
Rosette, aged 54, brought up her children as a single parent and they now support her as she is "too old to fish" herself.

St Luce

Constand
Constand is 31 and has a wife and children to support and is finding it difficult to make a living as the resource base declines because of a population "explosion".

Olina
Olina is 80 and still working. She benefited greatly from her parents' decision to send her to school, where she learnt French, cooking and sewing.

Fanja
Having had little education, 22-year-old Fanja – like most women in St Luce – makes tsihy (woven mats) for her living. She describes the "demanding", "painful" and sometimes dangerous process.

Illafisignana

Bruno
Bruno, aged 43, is in no doubt that the climate is changing. He describes the drastic impact of rising temperatures and recurrent drought on agriculture.

Sirily
Sirily, in his 40s, describes the highs and lows of his working life, identifying the factors that have led to changes in his standard of living.

Say Louise
Say Louise, aged 38, has happy memories of childhood, when her father had job with the port management authority in Fort Dauphin.

Key themes

• Forests
• Rivers and the sea
• Land and compensation
• Farming and food security
• Environmental change
• Livelihoods
• Economic conditions
• Health
• Cultural and social change
• Communication and power relations
• Local development
• The future