Famine risk for millions in second locust wave

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Cyril Ferrand, FAO resilience team leader for East Africa Swarms have “been damaging crops and pastures and crippling communities in the Greater Horn of Africa, Arabian Peninsula and Southwest Asia” since October, explained World Resources Institute climate programme research analyst Tina Huang. See PDF] FAO desert locust global forecast May-July 2020 The level of threat in West Africa could also change significantly in the next few weeks based on rainfall, winds and the locust situation in Arabia and East Africa, the FAO says. “The biggest challenge we are facing at the moment is the supply of pesticides and we have delays because global air freight has been reduced significantly,” says Cyril Ferrand, the FAO's resilience team leader for East Africa.