Tag: locust
Locusts Threatening Fragile Sahel Region
June 28, 2012
With the Sahel region already facing food shortages and a potential full-scale emergency, the region now faces further difficulties from increased locust activity. FEWS NET (the Famine Early Warning Systems Network) warns that anticipated locust breeding in Niger and Mali this month and in Chad and Mauritania in the coming weeks could cause large numbers of [...]