Between June 2019 and February 2022, a major outbreak of desert locusts began developing, threatening food supplies in East Africa, the Arabian Peninsula and the Indian subcontinent. The outbreak was the worst to hit Kenya in 70 years, and the …

2012年10月31日 · One past complication to inferring the effects of a swarm is that the acrididae family of short-horned grasshoppers only emerges as a swarm after periods of high rainfall – a locust plague is known as “the curse of good rains” – and so its impact will be muted in any aggregate data by high overall levels of crop yields.

2023年12月1日 · Cells that were affected by a locust swarm are on average 2.1 percentage points more likely to experience any violent conflict each year afterward, with large effects even 14 years later (Panel A). I find similar impacts on the risk of protest and riot events (Panel B). These results are robust to a variety of alternative specifications.

2022年2月14日 · The start of 2020 was marked by the continued South American Locust upsurge—the first major upsurge of this species in 60 years, as well as the onset of a dangerous Desert Locust invasion extending from Kenya to India—the first many of these countries have seen in decades.

Locusts breed very fast and— a single female locust can lay egg pods containing anywhere from 80- 150 eggs. Locusts do not attack people or animals. Q. Where is the current Locust outbreak? A. Swarms of desert locusts are threatening large areas of pastures and crops, overwhelming countries in the Horn of Africa, the Middle East, and South Asia.

2020年12月1日 · Massive locust outbreaks threaten the terrestrial environments and crop production in around 100 countries of which Ethiopia, Somalia and Kenya are the most affected. Six large locust outbreaks are reported for the period from 1912 to 1989 all being closely related to long-term droughts and warm winters coupled with occurrence of high ...

2020年2月6日 · Studies have linked a hotter climate to more damaging locust swarms, leaving Africa disproportionately affected—20 of the fastest warming countries globally are in Africa. Wet weather also favours multiplication of locusts.

2020年6月13日 · Hundreds of billions of locusts, are gathering in swarms the size of major cities and devastating crops around Africa. Locust swarms have been a cause of famine and human migration since prehistory, and this year’s plague seems to be no exception.

2020年2月5日 · With hundreds of billions of locusts tearing through farmland, it’s the worst outbreak to strike the region in decades. Tearing across East Africa right now is a plague of biblical proportions:...

2021年5月24日 · In 2020, as the world was kept busy by an outbreak of a different kind, locusts swarmed in East Africa and the Middle East, affecting many countries including Kenya, Ethiopia, Uganda, Somalia, Eritrea, Iran, Yemen, Oman, Saudi …