The United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has issued a warning about a potential desert locust outbreak in Morocco, as swarms continue spreading across North Africa. The warning ...

Protecting and restoring the livelihoods of locust affected households to prevent human capital and asset loss, ensure food security, and rehabilitate livelihoods 3. Preparing and building capacity to ...

Locust swarms began invading several areas across Morocco, sparking growing concerns about the impact on agriculture and food ...

Six years ago, two communities in New York – one in Brooklyn and one in Rockland County – were facing the worst measles outbreaks the United States had seen in decades. Measles had been ...

To prepare for the breeding season, a regional training programme was conducted in FAO’s headquarters in Rome under the framework of the Commission for Control of the Desert Locust in South-West Asia ...

Testing long-held hypotheses Through a combination of fieldwork during East Africa’s locust outbreak of 2020, laboratory studies, virtual reality experiments, and a reevaluation of past data ...

Now the desert locust is threatening large swaths of Saudi Arabia in one of the worst outbreaks of recent times. Last month, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) issued a warning on the ...

The pests have an infamous reputation for how large and rapid a swarm can develop, and environment experts say there's a high chance of a locust outbreak in the central west of New South Wales.

Since desert locust outbreaks are a regular occurrence in parts of Pakistan, the government has a robust system of surveillance, control and treatment that predates independence. In 2019 ...