STORY HIGHLIGHTS More than 369,737 farmers (67% female) have received assets and services through the Resilience Agriculture and Livelihood Project (RALP) since a desert locust outbreak ravaged their ...

Locust swarms behavior studied by researchers, revealing new insights for predicting and managing future outbreaks.

Desert locusts typically lead solitary lives until something—like intense rainfall—triggers them to swarm in vast numbers, often with devastating consequences. This migratory pest can reach ...

Desert locust swarms are ravaging crops, trees, and pastureland, destroying food and vegetation and jeopardizing food security across Africa, the Arabian Peninsula, and South Asia. The World Bank is ...

The Desert Locust Control Organisation for Eastern Africa (DLCO-EA), in collaboration with the Tanzania Plant Health and ...

The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has warned that locust swarms can devastate crops and pastures in ...

The UN Secretary-General António Guterres has expressed “deep concern” over rising tensions between India and Pakistan since ...

This time, they obtained exclusive coverage of the next wave of young locusts now bulking up in Somalia’s desert. Officials in charge of the United Nations’ response to the locust outbreak couldn’t ...

Mbarali. Rice farmers in Mbarali District, Mbeya Region, are in panic after quelea birds invaded their fields just ahead of ...

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) is urging countries in Northwest Africa to enhance ...

The brain of a solitary desert locust is shown in solid yellow, and the brain of a gregarious locust of the same species in transparent blue at the same magnification. The swarming gregarious ...

Photo: World Bank/ MAFS. More than 369,737 farmers (67% female) have received assets and services through the Resilience Agriculture and Livelihood Project (RALP) since a desert locust outbreak ...