Desert locust swarms are ravaging crops, trees, and pastureland, destroying food and vegetation and jeopardizing food security across Africa, the Arabian Peninsula, and South Asia. The World Bank is ...

This created a perfect breeding condition for the locust, says Keith Cressman, senior locust forecasting officer at the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). "We know that cyclones are the ...

Watch the full episode here. Locusts have huge appetites. One of these insects can eat its own weight in food in a single day. And they're devastating crops in East Africa, where millions of ...

The government is racing against time to contain the locust menace, which the UN describes as Kenya's worst in 70 years. The Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) says the locust population is ...