Food security: Pakistan readies for second battle against crop-devouring locusts
ZOFEEN T EBRAHIM, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports on the threat locusts may again pose to Pakistan’s food production…
Somalia races to save livelihoods as new locust generation spawns
Nairobi, KenyaThomson Reuters Foundation Somalia is deploying surveillance teams and specialised vehicles to prevent desert locust swarms ravaging crops and pastures, and destroying the livelihoods of hundreds of thousands of people, United Nations and government officials said on Monday. The worst outbreak in a generation has seen hungry swarms – some the size of cities […]
LOCUSTS STEALING LIVES: SOMALILAND FARMERS, HERDERS FEAR LOOMING PLAGUE
NITA BHALLA, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports…
Climate change linked to African locust invasion
Nairobi, KenyaThomson Reuters Foundation Climate change may be powering the swarms of desert locusts that have invaded eastern Africa, ravaging crops, decimating pasture and deepening a hunger crisis, locust and climate experts said. Hundreds of millions of the insects have swept over the Horn of Africa in the worst outbreak in a quarter of a […]