Desert Locust Plagues
Desert Locust Plagues For thousands of years, humans have found themselves vulnerable to plagues of desert locusts. With the consequent, often total, destruction of crops and grazing, widespread…
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Desert Locust Plagues
For thousands of years, humans have found themselves vulnerable to plagues of desert locusts. With the consequent, often total, destruction of crops and grazing, widespread hunger and starvation ensued. Some fifty countries in Africa, the Middle East and Asia have been ravaged, at one time or another, by huge, devouring swarms of locusts.
Based on his own extensive experience in the region, Everard describes one of the greatest (albeit unsung) triumphs of the twentieth century, namely, how the desert locust scourge has, at last, been virtually brought under Colin Everard's book takes as its geographical focus the Horn of Africa, an area which throughout history has suffered catastrophically from locust plagues.