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Displaying 315 of about 380 resultsThis good practice fact sheet shares the experience and technology behind eLocust3, a highly effective data recording and transmission system for crop pest monitoring. The document highlights the system’s innovative features and the lessons learned from the process of product development. It also sets out to explore how this technology, currently being…
By LaRon Beemer
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The fall armyworm feeds on more than 80 different crops including maize, rice, sorghum, sugarcane, vegetables, and cotton. Within maize, a key food staple in sub-Sarahan Africa, the Centre for Agricultural Bioscience International (CABI) estimates that the pest could cause losses in 12 key Africa countries of 8.3 millio…
By Esther Ndumi Ngumbi, Assistant Professor, Department of Entomology; African-American Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-ChampaignOutbreaks of insect pests and insect invasions are on the rise on the African continent.Currently, several African countries – including Kenya, Ethiopia and Somalia – are dealing with the one of t…
CABI led the study exploring the income and food security effects of the fall armyworm in Zimbabwe, where affected households are 12% more likely to experience hunger.
CABI has led the first study to explore the income and food security effects of the fall armyworm invasion on a country - revealing that in Zimbabwe smallholder maize-growing households…
Desert locusts continue to be a serious threat to food security and agriculture in parts of East Africa and India and Pakistan as a result of favourable climate and environmental conditions, according to new updates.
Although desert locusts have been here since biblical times, recent intense outbreaks can be linked to anthropogenic climate change and t…
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Khadar Sheikh Mohamed is the director of the new national disaster early warning centre designed to help Somalia predict disasters. This year it has already suffered from flooding and a locust invasion.
Compound disasters: 20M people are already experiencing acute food insecurity in East Africa due to #desertlocusts. https://t.co/qmf3mdxcwv @FAO…
By Abdirahman Hussein
Somali farmers on Saturday urged their government and the international community to help protect their crops from an invasion of locusts that is leaving many unable to feed their families.
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“Locusts already ate our grazing area so we are now fighting to save at least our farm, where we planted watermelon and beans. We a…
By Hasaan Khawar
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The first is the preparedness failure. The locust threat is not new to Pakistan and, in fact, the very objective of the creation of the Department of Plant Protection (DPP) in 1950 was locust survey and control. The unit was well-equipped with robust capacity to manage the locust attacks. But over time, the department’s prioriti…
By Sebastien Malo
In the West African country of Niger, millet is said to be the king of grains - the cereal crop preferred by all farmers. And the king of millet in the southern town of Borgo Beri is indisputably farmer Hassane Hima.
Given the title by his peers, a tradition in Niger, he wears it with pride. "Millet is what people grow most," he said…
CABI scientists have updated the first major study of potential biological controls that could be used in the fight against the devastating fall armyworm in Africa. The research offers new insight into evidence of their efficacy in the field and increased availability as commercial products.
Indeed, the review, published in the Journal of Applied…
By Brook Abdu
Ineffective bio-pesticides that are being used in neighboring countries are challenging Ethiopia’s effort to control the desert locust invasion which hit five regions so far, The Reporter has learnt.
Speaking to The Reporter on the desert locust prevention activities in Ethiopia, Belayneh Negussie, crop protection dir…
WASHINGTON — South Sudan will benefit from two new projects totaling $116 million that aim to strengthen the capacity of farmers, improve agricultural production, and restore livelihoods and food security. South Sudan is facing increasing levels of food insecurity despite increased production, with exceptionally high food prices constraining access to f…
More than 240,000 hectares treated and 740 personnel trained in affected countries since January 2020.
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN is continuing its efforts to contain the Desert Locust upsurge in East Africa despite restrictions on the movement of personnel and equipment resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Desert Locust upsu…
The United Nations General Assembly has designated October 13th as the International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction to promote a global culture of disaster risk reduction. It is an opportunity to acknowledge the progress being made toward reducing disaster risk and losses in lives, livelihoods and health in…
A newly published review of the CABI-led Pest Risk Information Service (PRISE) project shows that smallholder farmers in four African countries who received pest alerts created using earth observation data benefitted from reduced crop losses and higher incomes compared to farmers who did not.Crop pests are the major cause of loss of smallholder producti…