Agriculture Cabinet Secretary Peter Munya has warned of a second wave of desert locusts next month. In December 2019 and early 2020, Kenya experienced the worst locust invasion in 70 years as swarms ...

A resident of Tenges in Baringo Central tackles locusts last year. At least 20 counties have been invaded by the desert locusts. [File, Standard] Kenya is under pressure to avert a full-scale desert ...

They say when life throws you lemons, you make lemonade. But what happens when life throws swarms of desert locusts your way? You could make fertilizer from those locusts, as a team of innovators in ...

DHUSAMAREB, Somalia (Reuters) - 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 ...

Swarms of locusts in Ethiopia have damaged 200,000 hectares (half a million acres) of cropland and driven around a million people to require emergency food aid, the United Nations said Monday. The ...

A new study led by scientists from the Chinese MARA-CABI Joint Laboratory for Biosafety suggests greater awareness of biopesticide market availability, efficacy and field application processes could ...

The next phase in the massive control operation against African Migratory Locust (AML) in Zambia is expected to begin today. The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) is ...

BISMARCK - A visit by a trade delegation from Tunisia has been canceled because of a locust invasion in that country, state Wheat Commission officials say. A team from the Tunisian Office of Cereals ...

The National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) on Thursday announced that it had sprayed pesticides to ward off desert locusts over 578,000 hectares of land across Pakistan, adding that the insect ...