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John LaRose Jr. John LaRose Jr.
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Topics: Water, Ag Africa,

www.ghanamma.com "Mambwere, Zimbabwe – Samuel Mudziwepasi lost his entire maize crop in the last farming season, when a drought ravaged much of Zimbabwe.

Now he fears his next harvest will be just as bad, as his crop is already damaged from a dry spell that hit the country’s eastern r...Read More


John LaRose Jr. John LaRose Jr.
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Topics: Pest Control, Ag South America,

www.news24.com/Africa "Swarms of locusts in Ethiopia have damaged 200 000 hectares of cropland and driven around a million people to require emergency food aid, the United Nations says. The findings from the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), which recently concluded a joint assessment with the Ethiopian government, come as the region is bracing for new swarms that could be even more destructive. Billions of desert locusts, some in swarms the size of Moscow, have already chomped their way through much of East Africa, including Ethiopia, Somalia, Kenya, Djibouti, Eritrea, Tanzania, Sudan, South Sudan and Uganda."

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