Young girls working at rice harvest in Mahabo, Madagascar, on Tuesday, May 09, 2006...Madascans live on an economy and a diet based mostly on rice monoculture and inadequate tradional alimentation wich causes food shortage for many months each year where they live only on manioc. During harvest, task are very traditional. Men cut the stems, women gather, transport and dry the harvest, children transport hay produced...The culture of rice requires long months and several people must work from... more »
Young girls working at rice harvest in Mahabo, Madagascar, on Tuesday, May 09, 2006...Madascans live on an economy and a diet based mostly on rice monoculture and inadequate tradional alimentation wich causes food shortage for many months each year where they live only on manioc. During harvest, task are very traditional. Men cut the stems, women gather, transport and dry the harvest, children transport hay produced...The culture of rice requires long months and several people must work from September to June, leaving little time to other economic activities for the peasants. « less
