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Swarms of the insects are sweeping across eastern Ethiopia, neighbouring areas of Somalia, and are pouring into Kenya, destroying crops, pasture, and forest cover throughout the region on an unprecedented scale.
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“We must act now,” UN humanitarian chief Mark Lowcock said in a statement on Wednesday, announcing the release…
In the Horn of Africa, there has been a significant and extremely dangerous increase in swarm activity during the past week in Kenya where numerous, large immature swarms are spreading from the initial invasion areas of the northeast (Mandera county) south to Wajir and Garissa, west along the Ethiopian border (Moyale and Marsabit counties) and southwest…
SERVIR, a joint program between NASA and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), has partnered with relief organizations and the United Nations, to produce maps that could explain locust behavior. The maps provide useful information on environmental conditions, such as soil moisture and vegetation, that can influence locust life cycles. B…
With Fall Armyworm causing extensive damage to maize crops in various districts including Trichy, Karur and Perambalur, the agriculture department has evolved an action plan to prevent the pest attack this year. Maize is grown on about 3.5 lakh hectares in Tamil Nadu and Fall Armyworm had caused extensive damage to the crop last year.
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Insects and diseases that damage crops are probably present in many places thought to be free of them, new research shows.
Pests that have not been reported in a certain area are usually assumed to be absent, but analysis by the University of Exeter shows many pests are “currently unobserved, but probably present” (a likelihood of more than 75%).
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Rome - FAO has launched a mobile application to enable farmers, agricultural workers and other partners at the frontline of the fight against Fall Armyworm in Africa to identify, report the level of infestation, and map the spread of this destructive insect, as well as to describe its natural enemies and the measures that are most effective i…
By Wilhelm de Beer, Associate Professor, University of Pretoria; and Trudy Paap, Postdoctoral Fellow Forestry and Agricultural Biotechnology Institute, University of Pretoria
A tiny tree-killing beetle with the awkwardly long name of Polyphagous Shothole Borer was detected in South Africa for the first time last year. It’s now attac…
By Laura Oprescu
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Pakistan’s Ministry of National Food Security and Research had said the locusts first emerged in January this year from Sudan and Eritrea on Africa’s Red Sea Coast, hit Saudi Arabia and Iran in February, and entered south-western Pakistan in March.
According to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO…
If the outbreak isn't dealt with, larger swarms could devour summer crops and pave the way for more food insecurity, experts say
By Annie Banerji
NEW DELHI, June 3 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - From deploying drones and fire trucks to banging utensils and blaring loud music, India is experimenting with ways to battle a new wave of locust attacks that…
Best known as a vast, cold tundra, Russia's sprawling Siberia region is being transformed by climate change that has brought with it warmer temperatures, forest fires and growing swarms of hungry moth larvae.
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"This winter was the hottest in Siberia since records began 130 years ago," said Marina Makarova, the chief meteorologist at Russia's Rosg…
While the eyes of the world are on the novel coronavirus, East Africa continues to struggle with another crisis of biblical proportions: growing swarms of ravenous locusts. Both crises are extraordinary in scale, and both foes multiply so quickly that governments are struggling to contain them. But times of crisis are also times of i…