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Ethiopia races against time to control locusts as the planting season starts
25/02/2020
The Government of Ethiopia is racing against time to control Desert Locusts as the February – May Belg season starts. With support from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the Ministry of Agriculture is scaling up aerial and ground operations in Oromia and Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples' (SNNP) regions – Belg crop-producing areas.
Locusts in East Africa: A race against time
25/02/2020
East Africa is a region beset by climate- and conflict-related shocks. Millions of people are already acutely food insecure. Now they face another major hunger threat in the form of desert locusts.
Belgium contributes to FAO and the Government of Ethiopia’s desert locust control operations in affected and at-risk areas
20/02/2020
The worst desert locust crisis in 25 years is underway in Ethiopia, where around 90 000 ha of cropland and pasture are already reported to have been infested.
The Africa Solidarity Trust Fund donates $1 million to efforts to combat Desert Locust in East Africa
07/02/2020
The Africa Solidarity Trust Fund (ASTF) has donated $1 million to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations to combat the worsening Desert Locust upsurge in the Horn of Africa.
Drought-affected households in Ethiopia benefit from FAO cash-transfer project
05/02/2020
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has provided 4 500 drought-affected pastoral households in the Somali region of Ethiopia with unconditional cash transfers to meet their immediate needs and invest in productive activities.
FAO appeals for urgent support to fight worsening Desert Locust upsurge in the Horn of Africa
30/01/2020
FAO Director-General QU Dongyu said today the Desert Locust upsurge in the Horn of Africa threatened to provoke a humanitarian crisis and appealed for urgent funding to tackle the outbreak in order to protect livelihoods and food security.
UN releases USD10 million in rapid support for Desert Locust campaign in East Africa
24/01/2020
The United Nations’ (UN) Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) has released USD 10 million to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) to support a rapid scale-up of control operations aimed at containing the spread of Desert Locust swarms in East Africa.
Massive border-spanning campaign needed to combat locust upsurge in East Africa
20/01/2020
Desert Locust swarms in Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia - already unprecedented in their size and destructive potential - could swell exponentially and spill over into more countries in East Africa if efforts to deal with the voracious pest are not massively scaled up across the region, FAO warned today.
Desert Locusts spread to new areas in Ethiopia
20/01/2020
Despite control efforts, Desert Locusts are spreading to new areas of Ethiopia in vast numbers.