Kenya has the pesticides to tackle the country’s locust invasion ready and stored in local warehouses, the Agrochemicals Association of Kenya (AAK) announced today. With the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) now warning of a 400-fold increase in the number of locusts in the region by ...

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Wycliffe Ngoda, 65, and his grandson inspect their maize crop for Fall Armyworm at his farm in Mbale, Kenya. “I thank God I have a small family and none of them are going to school, otherwise it would have been a total disaster,” said Wycliffe Ngoda, 65, from Mbale, Vihiga county in Kenya. Ngoda ...

By Nonkululeko Britton-Masekela, an organic farmer and thought leader in agriculture The fall armyworm infestation in Africa is bankrupting farmers who cannot afford expensive insecticides to protect their crops. Struggling farmers are now resorting to selling off their land to the highest bidder. ...