They say when life throws you lemons, you make lemonade. But what happens when life throws swarms of desert locusts your way? You could make fertilizer from those locusts, as a team of innovators in ...

The desert locust invasion in Somalia has significantly affected the country’s food security, with successive generations of swarms destroying vital crops and pastures. Compounding the situation were ...

The Horn of Africa has been hit by an invasion of desert locusts in 25 years -- and in Kenya, it's the worst in 70 years, the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization said Friday. The Horn of Africa has ...

IN THE LIST of plagues inflicted upon the people of Egypt in the Book of Exodus, only darkness and death get higher billing than locusts. That ranking is apt. Today, Schistocerca gregaria, also known ...

Plagues of locust have threatened agricultural production in Africa, Middle East and Asia for centuries. Desert locusts are potentially the most dangerous of the locust pest because of the ability of ...

The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) on Sunday warned swarms of desert locusts are expected to descend on large parts of Ethiopia and Kenya in the coming weeks. In its latest ...

Taita Taveta has managed to contain swarms of locusts that invaded the county, officials have said. County Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries Executive Davis Mwangoma said the desert locusts have ...

ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Desert locusts are destroying tens of thousands of hectares of crops and grazing land in Somalia in the worst invasion in 25 years, the United Nations food agency said on ...

In this remote village about 200 miles east of Nairobi, residents – some Catholics – were fearing a new wave of desert locusts, as millions of eggs the insects laid earlier began to hatch. Under the ...

NEW DELHI, Jan 21 (Reuters) - India has been able to bring swarms of desert locusts under control in two key oilseed producing states and authorities are now trying to assess crop damage, officials ...

NAIROBI, Dec 7 (Reuters) - Desert locusts have invaded Kenya's arid northeastern region, threatening maize and wheat crops, but the Agriculture Ministry said on Friday it was well prepared to fight ...

BEIJING (Reuters) - China could face a desert locust invasion, a government body warned on Monday, urging local authorities to prepare for the possible arrival of the voracious insects from ...