As part of its on-line "Focus on the issues" series, FAO`s Media Relations Office has just released "Biological control of locusts: New weapons for old enemies", describing the age-old battle against the desert locus and the potential benefits of biopesticides such as Green Muscle, containing spores of the pathogenic fungus Metarhizium anisopliae, that was developed by the International Institute for Tropical Agriculture and manufactured in South Africa. See http://www.fao.org/newsroom/en/focus/2006/1000345/index.html (in Arabic, English, French, Italian and Spanish) or contact [email protected] for more information.

10/10/2006