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 ...

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Another innovative approach to managing desert locusts involves machine learning techniques to forecast locust band emergence. A study developed a model that uses multisource time-series imagery ...

The worst desert locust outbreak in a generation has been decimating crops and other vegetation across the Horn of Africa. Since January, Kenya Ethiopia, and Somalia have been battling to contain the ...

trees and other vegetation, impacting food security and livelihoods. The researchers also found a strong link between the magnitude of desert locust outbreaks and weather and land conditions like ...

Mauritania was recently hit by a locust invasion affecting one million hectares of land Mauritania is preparing to test drones in the fight against desert locusts as part of efforts by a UN body ...