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A high-tech response is helping countries win battle against Desert Locusts


FAO and its partners are creating cutting-edge technology to destroy the pests
In response to the massive locust swarms that have swept across East Africa, Yemen and southwest Asia, FAO, with partners and donors, developed an array of high-tech tools to revolutionise locust detection, surveillance and control. ©FAO/Luis Tato
06/05/2021
For the unsuspecting farmer, the Desert Locust is a formidable enemy. These wretched pests have a voracious appetite, multiply rapidly and travel up to 150 kilometers a day with the capacity to devour vast swathes of crops and pastureland on the way.
In the past year, waves of the insidious insect swept across East Africa, Yemen and southwest Asia in massive swarms that contained up to 80 million in a single square kilometre.  ....

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How Kenya is controlling locust plagues


How Kenya is controlling locust plagues
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A swarm of locusts in Nakuru, Kenya.
At the beginning of 2020, a plague on a scale that had not been witnessed in decades descended on the Horn of Africa: billions of desert locusts crossed the borders from the Arabian Peninsula, ravaging farmland and fields of crops and placing the food security of 32 million people in danger, according to the initial warnings of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). After a series of droughts and seasonal floods, the climatic extremes that the region witnessed over the course of last year created the perfect conditions for these insects to reproduce in Biblical proportions. ....

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WFP in 2020: Conflict, climate change, coronavirus and Nobel Peace Prize... in pictures


WFP
A look back at the year in which WFP stepped up to unprecedented challenges and fed 100 million people in 88 countries
January
The World Food Programme marks the
2010 Haiti Earthquake anniversary-on 12 January that year, up to 300,000 people were killed following the magnitude 7.0 quake which struck at 4:53 p.m. Within 30 seconds, a world turned upside down. With more than a million displaced, tens of thousands risked going hungry.
High-energy biscuits distribution in Leogane, a town near the epicentre of the earthquake in January 2010. Photo: David Orr/WFP.org
Haiti today: Children in Bouraly school in Gonaives receive hot meals with WFP support. Photo: WFP/Antoine Vallas ....

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