Imagine discovering that within a few hours your entire crop for the season had been consumed by unwelcome visitors. In this edition of “Pounds of Prevention,” USAID examines the desert locust, a pest that affects the lives of millions of people in more than 65 countries throughout Africa, the Middle East, and Southwest Asia, an [...]
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Pounds of Prevention: Focus on Locusts
Posted by Kasey Channell, Africa Division Chief for the Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance on Thursday, March 29th 2012
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