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 ...

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

A letter from the Mandera Mission, in German East Africa, gives a distressing account of the ravages of a swarm of locusts. "The maize, mtarna, and bean fields," says the writer, "which yesterday ...

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

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

North African countries are facing an unprecedented wave of locust swarms, which have spread through Libya, Tunisia, and Algeria, slowly making their way toward Morocco’s borders, prompting the ...

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

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

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

In Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Tripoli, in the Sudan, the Gold Coast, French Equatorial Africa, locust-control officers had been warned. Last July London’s Anti-Locust Research Centre forecast ...

Unusually high levels of desert locust infestations have been reported during the current breeding season, raising alarms across affected regions, the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) warned ...