GIEWS Special Alert No. 347 - East Africa, 29 January 2020
The worst desert locust outbreak in decades threatens food security across East Africa
Year of publication2020
AuthorFAO
PublisherFAO
AbstractThe worst desert locust outbreak in 25 years has caused significant pasture losses across East Africa, mainly in agro-pastoral areas of eastern Ethiopia, central Somalia and northern Kenya. As sustained locust reproduction is expected until June 2020, the outbreak has a high probability to spread to southern Ethiopia, southern Somalia, northeastern Uganda and South Sudan. Immediate upscaling of aerial control measures is urgently needed to mitigate crop and pasture losses and to avoid a sharp deterioration of the food security situation.
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Product typeNewsletter
SeriesGIEWS - Special Alerts
RegionAfrica
ISSN2707-1766
Areas of workGlobal Information and Early Warning System
KeywordsDamage; pastoral lands; food security; planting; crop production; locusts; East Africa.
