<span style="color: #222222;">A new study has found that Madagascar's current food crisis has been caused mainly by factors other than global warming, contradicting a recent UN report which blamed it on climate change.<br />''<br />'' The report, by a group of international scientists, published by World Weather Attribution, blamed poverty and weather conditions that were only minimally affected by global warming. It said, in two consecutive seasons in southern Madagascar, rainfall had been 40 per cent below average, causing severe drought and crop failures.<br />''<br />''Last month, the UN World Food Programme declared that Madagascar was the first country experiencing famine-like conditions as result of climate change. More than 90 per cent of people in southern Madagascar live in poverty and farmers rely on each season's rain.</span><br />