Coronavirus in Africa: Locusts add to food security concerns

Billions of locusts are destroying food supplies in the Horn of Africa during the coronavirus outbreak.

>Leaders meeting in Davos this week are confronted with some critical challenges. One of them is how to realize the bright prospects of African agriculture.

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Dr Paul-André Calatayud is a senior research scientist of Research Institute for Development (IRD), a French Institute. A native of France, he has conducted field and laboratory studies in South America at CIAT (Colombia) and Africa at ORSTOM (Congo) and icipe (Kenya). On presentation  during the Workshop  day 3, (June 2,2015)  in training  for Webjournalists FINDING  NEW WAYS TO TELL AFRICA’S CLIMATE STORY. (all photo by Andrew Chale,MODEWJIBLOG.COM).

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East Africa could be on the verge of a food crisis, if swarms of locusts are not controlled.