#Ethiopia #Kenya worth giving this a read. Unfortunately, we are faced with another disaster which is now called #Locust19. https://www.ft.com/content/b93293d4-3d73-42bc-b8b7-2d3e7939490e

"Locusts eat their own body weight in food each day, meaning that a swarm of one Sq. km consumes as much as 35,000 people, experts said. Large swarms can be hundreds of square kilometers in size.

@SaraMenker, CEO of @GroIntel, a commodities analytics firm, said there was still time to head off the worst damage. “A huge part of Africa goes into planting from May. There is a critical four to six-week window to start treatments,” she said.

" Using the Gro estimates for cropland damaged in Ethiopia, where just under 19m hectares was affected earlier this year, the country could incur losses of $5bn in staple cereal crops, assuming 50% yield loss, if the same area is attacked again."

FYI @AbebeAbebayehu @KhalidBomba thought you could use these predictions + recommendations if you haven't come cross them yet. What a year!