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Desert Locust Plagues: Controlling the Ancient Scourge

Desert Locust Plagues: Controlling the Ancient Scourge

Everard, Colin
Cheke, Robert A.

Paperback

Public HealthAfrican HistoryInsects & Spiders

ISBN10: 1350202126
ISBN13: 9781350202122
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published: Feb 25 2021
Pages: 226
Weight: 0.59
Height: 0.48 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
For thousands of years, humans have found themselves vulnerable to plagues of desert locusts. Some 50 countries in Africa, the Middle East and Asia have been ravaged, at one time or another, by huge, devouring swarms of locusts. With the consequent, often total, destruction of crops and grazing, widespread hunger and starvation ensued. Colin Everard's book takes as its geographical focus the Horn of Africa, an area which throughout history has suffered catastrophically from locust plagues. Based on his own extensive experience in the region, Everard describes one of the greatest (albeit unsung) triumphs of the 20th century, namely, how the desert locust scourge has, at last, been virtually brought under control.

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