Insecticide use against desert locust in the Horn of Africa 2019–2021 reveals a pressing need for change
Published Date: 3/20/2023
Source: phys.org
In work published in Agronomy, the TMG Research gGmbH study team traced a highly destructive desert locust invasion in the Eastern Africa and Horn region between 2019-2021. Ethiopia and Kenya sprayed well over a million hectares of territory with damaging nerve agents malathion and chlorpyrifos, both from the organophosphate family of pesticides.