For the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), it is enemy number one.
“
The desert locust
is the most destructive migratory pest in the world.
They are voracious eaters who consume their own body weight per day.
A cloud of 1 square kilometer can contain up to 80 million adult locusts which consume in one day the same quantity of food as 35,000 people
,” explains the institution whose objective is to eradicate hunger in the world.
However, global warming favors the large-scale reproduction of this insect capable of traveling up to 1000 kilometers per week.
Once restricted to East Africa, it began to spread throughout the African continent and beyond, to Southwest Asia and the Near East.
“They live in arid or semi-arid areas where it rains less than 200 millimeters per year.
Their current habitation area is approximately 16 million square kilometers, encompassing around thirty…
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