{"id":7962,"date":"2020-02-06T08:38:10","date_gmt":"2020-02-06T05:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=7962"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:50","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:50","slug":"locust-swarms-and-climate-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2020\/02\/06\/locust-swarms-and-climate-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Locust Swarms And Climate Change"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>East African nations have been battling with swarms of desert locusts since the beginning of 2020, causing grave concern for all United Nations agencies and programmes. In the worst outbreak the region has seen in decades, the&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fao.org\/news\/story\/en\/item\/1258877\/icode\/\">Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations<\/a>&nbsp;warns that rising numbers of desert locusts present an extremely alarming threat to food security and livelihoods in the Horn of Africa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the organization\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fao.org\/ag\/locusts\/en\/info\/info\/index.html\">recent update<\/a>\u00a0on the desert locust upsurge, the current situation would be further worsened by new breeding that will produce more locust infestations in Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.unenvironment.org\/news-and-stories\/story\/locust-swarms-and-climate-change\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>East African nations have been battling with swarms of desert locusts since the beginning of 2020, causing grave concern for all United Nations agencies and programmes. In the worst outbreak&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7963,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7962\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}