East Africa Using Large Amounts Of ‘Highly Hazardous’ Pesticides To Fight Locust Plague – Analysis
By Leopold Salzenstein*
Swarms of locusts tens of kilometers wide have threatened to devastate crops in East Africa since late 2019, putting some 32 million people at risk of going hungry.
The desert locust infestation, described by the U.N.’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) in 2020 as a “scourge of...