KARACHI, Pakistan (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - To many farmers in southeast Pakistan, an impending locust attack when summer crops of cotton, sugarcane and rice are being sown, and fruit and ...

The crop-devouring pests love arid conditions and the occasional downpour. Global warming is offering more of both. By Raymond Zhong Rising temperatures could expand the area of the globe under threat ...

Francis Xavier Tran Duc Quyen has been having sleepless nights since yellow-spined bamboo locusts started devouring crops in Nghe An province in north-central Vietnam about two weeks ago. The ...

Turkana County is now the epicentre of desert locust invasion, the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) has warned. The county has recorded the highest number of hopper band sites carrying millions ...

A severe plague of locusts has infested about half of Madagascar, threatening crops and raising concerns about food shortages, a UN agency says. The UN's Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) said ...

The most serious outbreak of 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, authorities say.

KAMPALA (Reuters) - Uganda has started to spray swarms of desert locusts that invaded over the weekend, posing a major threat to livestock and key crops such as coffee, a government official said on ...

ROME (AP) — An unusually large swarm of local locusts, estimated in the millions, is plaguing farmers raising sheep and other livestock in Sardinia. The Italian farmers’ lobby Coldiretti says it has ...

Russia has declared a state of emergency in at least 10 regions where locusts are swarming through farmlands, devouring crops, Russian television reported. Locusts have been blamed for destroying tens ...

20 July 2004 Algeria, Morocco have already been badly hit. The last big swarm in the region, in 1987-89, ate a total of $300 million in crops In an invasion of North and West Africa that may take on ...

A man sprays organic pesticide on locusts to demonstrate its effects in fighting their spreading, near the village of Riandira in Kirinyaga County, Kenya, January 14, 2020. REUTERS/Baz Ratner KAMPALA, ...