African crops 'spared by locusts'
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Locust swarms across West Africa have not damaged food crops as severely as initially feared, the UN says.
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New swarms of crop-devouring locusts are on the move towards north-western Africa, the UN says.
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Reseachers have linked the survival of the Acacia tree to Africa's big browsing mammals
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EILAT, Israel - Swarms of locusts devoured lawns and palm trees Sunday in southern Israel, panicking farmers and leaving others worried about biblical plagues.
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ROME - Donor nations have pledged an additional $40m (about R264m) to help fight a devastating locust invasion in west Africa, but urgent action is now needed to tackle the crisis, the head of the UN&#39;s Food and Agriculture Organisation said yesterday.
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Experts fighting a major locust outbreak plaguing West Africa will use a new technique for fighting the crop-devouring insects: attacking the flying swarms with pesticide from aircraft, a U.S. diplomat said Tuesday.
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First reports of locust sightings in Jerusalem and Tel-Aviv were reported late Sunday night, Army Radio reported. A cloud of locusts smothered the city of Eilat on Sunday as millions of the ravenous plant-eating
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Reseachers have linked the survival of the Acacia tree-ant relationship to Africa's big browsing mammals
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Locusts in West Africa are devouring crops and breeding at such a rate they are expected to create a substantial number of new swarms across the region in September, two reports said.
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West Africa's worst locust plague for 15 years has encroached on one of the region's largest rice-growing areas, authorities in Mali said on Friday.
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Scientists poring over a mass of studies into the response of pests to genetically-modified cotton say they have found the first confirmation that insects have developed resistance to transgenic crops.
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With swarms of locusts threatening crops in a number of African countries, a U.N. agency appealed for an additional &#36;70 million in assistance Thursday to prevent the upsurge from becoming a full-scale plague.
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Shortages of crop-dusting planes and pesticide are continuing to hamper locust control operations in West Africa, where new swarms of young insects are forming in southern Mauritania, northern Senegal and parts of Niger, the UN Food and Agriculture
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The United States accused the UN agriculture body on Friday of mismanaging the locust crisis afflicting vast swathes of West Africa.
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Crop-devouring locusts have caused major damage to cereals in Mauritania but other West and Central African states have suffered much less than feared from the worst infestation in over a decade, the U.N. said on Thursday.
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