{"id":52035,"date":"2020-02-18T20:58:44","date_gmt":"2020-02-18T18:58:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.csregypt.com\/?p=52035"},"modified":"2020-02-18T20:58:44","modified_gmt":"2020-02-18T18:58:44","slug":"lagging-donations-for-facing-locust-invasion-of-africa-to-cost-world-1bn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csregypt.com\/en\/lagging-donations-for-facing-locust-invasion-of-africa-to-cost-world-1bn\/","title":{"rendered":"Lagging donations for facing locust invasion of Africa to cost world $1bn"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"direction: ltr;\">Lagging donations for the\u00a0Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) which pleaded for $76 million to confront swarms of locust invading Africa would cost the world up to $1 billion to contain the devastation left over.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div style=\"direction: ltr;\">It will be vastly more cost-effective to support the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) to tackle locusts in East Africa now than to help people in the region after their crops have been ruined, said World Food Program (WFP) Executive Director David Beasley today.<\/div>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr;\">\u201cFAO needs $76 million to help stop the locusts,\u201d Beasley said. \u201cDo nothing now and WFP will need up to 15 times that amount \u2013 more than US$1 billion &#8211; to assist people devasted by losing crops and livelihoods. Preventing a catastrophe in East Africa is a far better investment than responding to its consequences and impact on the lives of millions across the region.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr;\">FAO has so far raised $22 million out of the $76 million for which it has appealed in order to mount a comprehensive response to the locust infestation in East Africa.\u00a0 If left unchecked the devastation could further threaten the food security of up to 13 million people.<\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr;\">The regional Food Security and Nutrition Working Group (FSNWG) warned in an update that desert locust swarms are now multiplying across Somalia, Kenya and Ethiopia and more swarms have already also been observed in Eritrea, Djibouti and northeastern Uganda.<\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr;\">\u201cLooking forward, given favorable forecast weather conditions, swarms are expected to increase in areas already affected, as well as spread to neighboring areas. There is also a high risk that locusts will spread to South Sudan,\u201d said the update from the group which includes FAO, WFP, the Famine Early Warning Systems Network (FEWS NET) and the Inter-Governmental Authority on Development (IGAD).<\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr;\">The food security update said locusts were expected to breed and spread in coming months. It forecast that the March-April start of the long rains would prompt the locusts to breed anew and spread even further.<\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr;\">The desert locust is considered the world\u2019s most dangerous migratory pest. FAO says swarms are the worst in 25 years in Ethiopia and Somalia, and the worst in 70 years in Kenya. 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