The locusts are back, and they are hungry. Last year, an unprecedented plague of locusts devastated crops in eastern Africa, across the Middle East and throughout much of Asia. Many were hoping that it would just be a one year phenomenon, but now the locusts have returned and one British news source is using the world “biblical” to describe this second wave. At this moment, the Horn of Africa is being hit the hardest, and the UN is warning that this new infestation “threatens the livelihoods of more than 39 million people”…
According to the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), the next generation of locusts
Kenya s farmers face threat of new locust swarms
While Kenya is having some success fighting desert locust swarms, farmers in the north and center of the country face huge losses from ongoing waves of locust swarms.
Some crops are growing scarce in Kenya due to the ongoing locust plague
Seventy-year-old Isabella Karoki has never witnessed such a devastating invasion of desert locusts. I have lost everything. What do you expect me to eat? said Karoki, who lives in central Kenya, an agricultural region known for its rich volcanic soils and moderate rainfall.
Farmers like Karoki usually see the rains as a blessing.
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