FOR the past three years an organised effort has been made by the Governments of the South African colonies to destroy the swarms of locusts that from time to time invade the cultivated districts ...

25 on the locust swarms devastating agriculture in Kenya,AP’s Nairobi team came through with another truly striking package on the worst locust outbreak that parts of East Africa have seen in 70 years ...

Hundreds of billions of locusts are swarming through parts of East Africa and South Asia in the worst infestation for a quarter of a century, threatening crops and livelihoods. A man attempts to ...

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 people are already considered food ...

An average swarm can destroy crops sufficient to feed 2,500 people for a year, according to the FAO Swarms of desert locusts that have been devouring crops and pasture in the East Africa region ...

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 ...

practical schemes for the preventive control of the three species of African locusts were formulated 1; but the outbreak of the War in 1939 made the postponement of schemes, which were of ...

The most serious outbreak of desert locusts in 25 years is spreading across East Africa and posing an unprecedented threat to food security in some of the world’s most vulnerable countries ...

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 ...

(AP Photo/Ben Curtis) KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — A small group of desert locusts has entered Congo, the first time the voracious insects have been seen in the Central African country since 1944, the U.N.