Locust outbreaks are driven by unusual climatic conditions.
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Eating locusts is an old strategy used to get food after locusts devastated crops, but things have changed.
County governments and the health ministry should allow produce markets to operate in urban areas.
Changing weather modifies insect traits and can have an impact on their food, natural enemies and predators.
The best way of dealing with desert locust, as other locust species, is to adopt a preventive management strategy.
Countries should promote alternatives to pesticides and more carefully examine how to prevent insect invasions in the first place
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Assistant Professor, Department of Entomology; African-American Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Research Fellow, Tegemeo Institute, Egerton University
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Scientist, Cirad
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Postdoctoral Researcher, Andong National University
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Director, Tegemeo Institute of Agricultural Policy and Development, Egerton University
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Professor, School of Animal, Plant and Environmental Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand
