Photographer Ed Kashi puts Madagascar in the frame
For the Malagasy, rice represents life. In this photograph, locals plant young shoots in flooded fields Photograph: Ed Kashi Photograph: Ed Kashi/guardian.co.uk A woman sells bananas outside her home in a rural village Photograph: Ed Kashi Photograph: Ed Kashi/guardian.co.uk Some Malagasy men make a living breaking rocks for gravel and building materials Photograph: Ed Kashi Photograph: Ed Kashi/guardian.co.uk Meanwhile, women collect water from tiny pools in the fields. The lack of water is causing crops to fail Photograph: Ed Kashi Photograph: Ed Kashi/guardian.co.uk Farmers check their dead corn stalks. They now rely increasingly on fishing, but overfishing has depleted the fish stocks Photograph: Ed Kashi Photograph: Ed Kashi/guardian.co.uk Burning the forest to clear it for planting is illegal, but local farmers continue to do it out of necessity Photograph: Ed Kashi Photograph: Ed Kashi/guardian.co.uk The relative of a woman who recently died stands before her granite memorial in the ancestral burial grounds Photograph: Ed Kashi Photograph: Ed Kashi/guardian.co.uk
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