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In Botswana, small farmers lost their entire harvest. In Namibia, the first outbreaks began on the plains of Zambezi and the swarms have now spread to the major agricultural areas. Similarly, in the Zambia, insects spread rapidly while Zimbabwe, swarms and larvae initially infested two sites in the district of Chiredzi and now they have moved to the province of Manicaland. In these four African countries there are seven million people who are at risk of starvation due to the invasion of grasshopperHowever, they reached areas that are still recovering from the impact of Drought 2019 and are battling the economic effects of the pandemic COVID-19.
In the most affected areas, measures have already been implemented to combat the invasion of ‘migratory locusts’ and the Fao launched the “Southern Africa Lobster Emergency Response Project” in collaboration with Southern African Development Community (Sadc) and the International Organization for the Control of the Locust for Central and Southern Africa (Irlco-Csa) to help the governments of the affected countries to combat the invasion of this parasite, which is among the most destructive in the world. In fact, a swarm can contain tens of millions of insects that devour the same amount of food consumed by 2,500 people in one day, destroying livestock crops and pastures in a few hours.
“Even with the control measures already taken, lobsters are still a threat. Some of the most affected areas are very difficult to access. We must support the four governments to control this parasite and protect people’s livelihoods, ”he said. Patrice Size, FAO Coordinator forSouth Africa. The project of the Fao, which provides funding of half a million dollars, wants to strengthen the coordination and the share information between affected countries, allowaerial surveillance activities and mapping in hard-to-reach areas and provision of technical support for the establishment of national locust surveillance and control units.
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