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Displaying 75 of about 266 resultsCe sont des insectes qui détruisent les plants dans les champs. Elles sont capables de décimer 75% de la production d'un champs. Ces insectes constituent donc une menace pour les cultivateurs et par ricochet sur la capacité d'une population a se nourrir correctement et de façon durable. Il faut trouver des alternatives efficace pour palier cette menace.…
Interview with Cyril Ferrand, FAO’s Resilience Team Leader for East Africa, and Carla Mucavi, FAO Country Representative in Kenya
What is the Desert Locust situation in East Africa/Kenya right now?
Cyril Ferrand:
The locust situation is currently very quiet. We have declared the upsurge is over in the entire region for two main reasons: first,…
By Nivedita Khandekar
DELHI, 2 June, 2020 – India is no stranger to coping with climate extremes and natural emergencies, but this year is likely to lodge in the national memory as one of the most challenging in recent history.
The Covid-19 pandemic is a global scourge, but India also has many regional and national afflictions to make 2020 a year…
To support sustainable food production in drought prone areas in India as well as in other developing countries, the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) and the Department of Science and Technology (DST-Climate Change Program), Ministry of Science and Technology, Government of India, launched the Center of Excellen…
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Berne - A l’avenir, la Confédération ne s’engagera plus seulement pour la réduction des émissions de gaz à effet de serre, mais aussi – et de plus en plus – en faveur de mesures d’adaptation aux changements climatiques. C’est pourquoi le Conseil fédéral a adopté, le 2 mars 2012, le premier volet de sa stratégie «Adaptation aux ch…
According to IPS, the crop diversification, actively supported by the government’s research institutions, is already benefiting Bengali farmers. Bangladesh’s agricultural institutions have developed 190 varieties of wheat and rice capable of withstanding drought, salinity, pest attacks, flooding or temperature extremes. Despite such advances, experts fe…
Tekniker, a member of the Basque Research and Technology Alliance (BRTA), is participating in the European GreenPatrol project whose main goal is focused on setting up an innovative system based on artificial intelligence to improve agricultural production in greenhouses as a means to cope with challenges arising in this field.
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GreenPatrol is an a…
By Nelson Mandela Ogema
Widespread hatching and movement of destructive desert locusts will turn into a full-blown crisis in the coming weeks in East Africa and neighbouring countries, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization warns.
“Breeding continues in the Horn of Africa, which will cause locusts to increase further in Ethiopia, Somalia and Kenya w…
By Manupriya
After ravaging cornfields of sub-Saharan Africa, the fall armyworm arrived in India in 2018. The pest infestation has already spread to most parts of the subcontinent and has been reported from maize farms in 20 states.
A native of America, the fall armyworm has spread through trade routes to Africa and Asia. There is no sin…
CABI has led an international team of scientists who strongly suggest that the global trade of forest tree seeds is not as safe as previously believed, with insect pests and fungal pathogens posing a great risk to trees and forest ecosystems worldwide.
Non-native insect pests and fungal pathogens present one of the major threats to trees and forest eco…
By Omar Mohammed
Coronavirus-linked flight restrictions are hampering efforts to wipe out locust swarms on the verge of devastating crops in eastern Africa, the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said.
The curbs have delayed deliveries of pesticides and, at the current rate of spraying, stocks in Kenya will run out within four days, Cy…
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) today began training 300 National Youth Service (NYS) trainees at as part of its action plan aimed at boosting the Government of Kenya’s (GoK) ground surveillance on desert locusts. An additional 300 trainees will participate in future capacity buildings exercises at t…
By Karen McVeigh
Scientists monitoring the movements of the worst locust outbreak in Kenya in 70 years are hopeful that a new tracking programme they will be able to prevent a second surge of the crop-ravaging insects.
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Kenneth Mwangi, a satellite information scientist, based at the Intergovernmental Authority on Development…
GUANGZHOU – Facing dreaded pest disease caused by fall armyworm, XAG is among the first to introduce fully autonomous drones in some of the most affected countries, such as Zambia, South Africa, Vietnam and China, to improve the control efficacy that has originally been limited to manual spraying. XAG has discovered that in the worst hit Africa and Asia…
By Hallie Gu and Ryan Woo
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Known locally as the “heart-devouring worm,” the [Fall Armyworm] has spread more than 3,000 km (1,865 miles) north since migrating from neighboring Myanmar seven months ago, reaching 21 provinces and regions in China and posing a grave threat to grain output.
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This poses a formidable challenge in China where abou…