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Displaying 135 of about 266 resultsThe United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA) and the Centre for Space Science and Technology Education for Asia and the Pacific (Affiliated to the United Nations) are launching a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) on “Geospatial Applications for Disaster Risk Management”. This MOOC is a free and flexible online training programme available…
Canadian resource managers take several factors into account, including economic and ecological impacts, when deciding whether to extinguish wildfires, or let them die out naturally, reports Vancouver Sun.
“As a matter of fact, fire has some very good ecological effects, (but only) in the correct area at the correct time,” said Lyle Gawalko, head of fi…
Climate change created unprecedented conditions for the locusts to breed in the usually barren desert of the Arabian gulf, according to experts, and the insects were then able to spread through Yemen, where civil war has devastated the ability to control locust populations.
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It was Cyclone Mekunu, which struck in 2018, that allowed seve…
Hundreds of millions of the insects have swept over the Horn of Africa in the worst outbreak in a quarter of a century, says the United Nations
By Nita Bhalla
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 s…
The lethal fall armyworms that arrived in Bangladesh in 2018 after ravaging the cornfields of the Sub-Saharan Africa, have laid waste to cornfields in Chuadanga district and are spreading fast compared to last year, causing worry to farmers.
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Rafiquzzaman [Sufi Rafiquzzaman, additional deputy director of Department of Agricultural Extension…
Pests, which threaten to destroy key cash and food security crops including maize, tomato and beans, are to be prioritized as part of an integrated pest management strategy using state-of-the-art space-age technology.
Scores of smallholder farmers in Rwanda are the latest to benefit from the CABI-led consortium, funded by the UK Space Agency …
It will be vastly more cost-effective to support the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) to tackle locusts in East Africa now than to help people in the region after their crops have been ruined, said World Food Programme (WFP) Executive Director David Beasley today.
“FAO needs US$76 million to help stop the locusts,” Beasley…
By Joseph Opoku Gakpo
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The locusts are currently causing vast devastation of crop fields in Ethiopia, Kenya and other East African countries.
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Ebenezer Aboagye, Head of the Pests, Crop and Disease Division of the Agric Ministry, said they will rely on pesticides for fighting the destructive Fall Armyworm pests to deal wit…
2010 Times Higher Education Award for University of the Year
York researchers evaluate impact of climate change on biodiversity and habitats in East Africa
Posted on 21 May 2012
University of York researchers will play a key role in a new project studying the impact of climate change in Tanzania, Kenya and Ethiopia.
The new research and development…
Increased vigilance, strict monitoring and early control needed to prevent further swarms forming and spread along both sides of the Red Sea
Heavy rains and cyclones have triggered a recent surge in Desert Locust populations, causing an outbreak to develop in Sudan and Eritrea that is rapidly spreading along both sides of the Red Sea to Saudi Arabia an…
By Cameron Webb, Clinical Lecturer and Principal Hospital Scientist, University of Sydney
We’re often warned to avoid mosquito bites after major flooding events. With more water around, there are likely to be more mosquitoes.
As flood waters recede around Townsville and clean-up efforts continue, the local population will be faced with this prospect o…
By Leopold Obi
On a windy day high up in the hilly Kibirichia village, Meru County, Susan Naftali observes an eagle-sized unmanned aerial vehicle (drone) hovering low above his field.
The drone, which is delivering a whole new perspective of crop disease and pest early warning system to farmers, has brought new hope to many in Ntugi, Naare, Kibirichia…
The warning by the Ministry of Agriculture of another fall armyworm invasion in the food basket region of the North Rift is bad news, indeed, coming at a time when farmers are preparing to plant this season’s crop. This pest is so destructive that it pains to imagine that the efforts farmers are making now could just go down the drain.
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It is,…
By Rajendra Jadhav
Below-normal monsoon rains and an infestation of the fall armyworm, which devastated African crops in 2017, have slashed India’s corn output and boosted prices, increasing the chances the government will grant duty-free corn imports for the first time since 2016.
The shift to imports in the world’s seventh-largest corn producer, whi…
"Much of the attention is actually turning away from basic research to the more applied side," said Robert Oglesby, a climate scientist at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln in an interview with GreenBiz. “What are the impacts of these climate changes going to be, using high-resolution climate model downscaling?”