No locust breeding was reported in Tunisia and Libya in November, and the FAO expects the situation to remain stable in these countries until mid-January 2025. Additionally, there was minimal ...

The World Bank is providing financial and technical assistance, along with other donors and leading international agencies like the Food & Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), in ...

Ten years ago, an agreement was signed at the headquarters of the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations ...

Now, these massive swarms are threatening to plunge this region deeper into crisis. On the line with me to help explain the desert locust situation is Keith Cressman of the UN food and agriculture ...

What are desert locusts? UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) categorises the Desert Locust as the most dangerous pest in the world. “It threatens people’s livelihoods, food security ...

What are desert locusts? UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) categorises the Desert Locust as the most dangerous pest in the world. “It threatens people’s livelihoods, food security ...

This created a perfect breeding condition for the locust, says Keith Cressman, senior locust forecasting officer at the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). "We know that cyclones are the ...

Watch the full episode here. Locusts have huge appetites. One of these insects can eat its own weight in food in a single day. And they're devastating crops in East Africa, where millions of ...

FAO's Western Africa joint locust control force was established in 2016 and includes Mauritania, Algeria, Burkina Faso, Morocco, Niger, Senegal, Chad, Libya and Mali. FAO describes the desert ...