Search
Results for " "
Displaying 120 of about 266 results“What we’re seeing is a window into what global warming really looks like,” said Michael Oppenheimer, a geoscientist at Princeton University. “It looks like heat. It looks like fires. It looks like this type of environmental disaster,” reports Alertnet. It is the elderly, the very young and the ill people that are the most vulnerable to the high tempera…
Bamako - Clouds of desert locusts have arrived in rebel-held northern Mali, where insecurity has hampered pest control, bringing fears that the insects may devastate a country already struck by drought, conflict, and the displacement of more than 360,000 people.
Swarms of immature locusts have invaded Kidal and Aguelhok in northern Mali, which was take…
By Corey J. A. Bradshaw, Boris Leroy, Camille Bernery, Christophe Diagne and Franck Courchamp
They’re one of the most damaging environmental forces on Earth. They’ve colonised pretty much every place humans have set foot on the planet. Yet you might not even know they exist.
We’re talking about alien species. Not little green extraterrestria…
GENEVA, 22 May 2013 - The inventor of the world's first interactive digital globe that graphically depicts the vulnerability of our planet to disasters today challenged global policymakers to show more leadership in tackling the growing risks facing populations worldwide.
"What is important is not the technology but our vision for the future of the pla…
Experts want Counties to scale up and accelerate the adoption of recently developed disease and pest control technologies to realize better yields this season.
The agricultural scientist want farmers to embrace the techniques of containing the Maize lethal necrosis disease (MLND) and Fall Armyworm (FAW) control technologies which were found to be effec…
The University of Queensland is working with the Queensland Department of Agriculture and Fisheries (DAF) to develop guidelines to help Australian grain growers decide when and how to treat fall armyworm (FAW) to save their crops and finances.The highly invasive pest was detected in Australia three years ago and poses a major threat to broadacre crops i…
The mosquito species Aedes albopictus, a known vector of chikungunya and dengue viruses, is establishing itself further northwards and westwards in Europe, according to the latest data from ECDC. Also, Aedes aegypti, known to transmit dengue, yellow fever, chikungunya, Zika and, potentially, West Nile viruses, has been established in Cyprus since 2022 a…
GENEVA/CAIRO, 28 February 2012 - Morocco is taking steps to join 78 other nations whose governments have created National Platforms for Disaster Risk Reduction to support policies for building resilience to disasters.
"The future National Platform will help the work of all sectors to converge into one common objective, which is to construct a country t…
The impact of the fall armyworm pest on maize crops and communities in Sub-Saharan Africa were worsened by the COVID-19 pandemic, according to new CABI-led research published as a Current Opinion article in the journal Environmental Sustainability.Drawing upon recent empirical literature on the pest since it was first reported in Africa in 2016, CABI sc…
The Centre will build Somalia’s national capacity to independently manage desert locusts in the country.
His Excellency, the President of Puntland State, Mr Said Abdullahi Dani, and Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) Somalia Country Representative, Mr Etienne Peterschmitt, have opened the National Desert Locust Monitoring and…
An environmentally friendly spray that targets and kills one of cotton's (and the world’s) most damaging agricultural pests - silverleaf whitefly - has been created by scientists at The University of Queensland.
The breakthrough is part of UQ’s BioClay™ technology, a safe and sustainable alternative to chemical pesticides, which has been developed…
[...]ACP is a serious pest of citrus fruits as it acts as a vector for the bacteria Candidatus Liberibacter asiaticus (citrus greening) and Candidatus Liberibacter americanus (American greening) - the causative agent of citrus greening disease or Huanglongbing (HLB). [...]Dr Boafo said, "As the pest is a new pest, the natural enemies associated wi…
By Radhika Lal and Myra Togobo
It’s no mystery that UN agencies in the country are not always aware of the overlaps in their work with different government counterparts. If we are committed to delivering the 2030 Agenda, we need integrated policy support at the country level. This is exactly what we aimed to provide at the data group in UN Ghana when w…
By Jeckonia Otieno
The first insect quarantine facility in East and Central Africa has been launched in Kenya.
The facility becomes the second in Africa after South Africa. Built and equipped at a cost of Sh40 million and situated at the Kenya Forestry Research Institute (KEFRI); the facility will help Kenya in managing insects brought in from other c…
The report, Australia’s Biosecurity Future: Unlocking the next decade of resilience, found Australia is at risk of increased disease outbreaks and pest incursions, weakened exports, and damage to our global trading reputation.
In the five years to 2017, the amount of biosecurity risk materials intercepted in Australia increased by almost 50 per cent. A…