Several weeks after Middelburg was hit by a massive African Armyworm strike the town is now suffering a grasshopper infestation.

The UN Food and Agriculture Organization’s latest locust monitoring bulletin reports that they have found solitary desert ...

Francoise Steynberg Namibia's Cabinet has instructed the agriculture ministry to monitor a potential outbreak of insect pests during the rainy season.In the north, an outbreak of an armyworm ...

Morocco’s Interior Ministry announced today that the country has heightened its preparedness levels following the detection ...

Tarqi, spokesman for the National Committee for Combating Desert Locusts, has confirmed the spread of locust swarms, which ...

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 ...

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 ...

In Iran, locust infestations are usually found along the south-eastern coastal and interior regions of the country during the spring season. The latest Desert Locust Bulletin of the FAO says ...

Locust infestations and outbreaks are a serious threat to agricultural production, food security and the environment. The Locust-Tec project aims to enable preventive control to respond as quickly as ...

[File, Standard] Alarming levels of food insecurity have gripped the IGAD region, propelled by a relentless combination of drought, floods, locust infestations, the Covid-19 pandemic and ongoing ...