Locust Attack

They are back. Africa, Middle East, Pakistan, India¼ the rampaging swarms are laying waste to crops and vegetation across large swathes of land in the Global South. This time, they are invading our cities as well.

Join us along with international experts in deciphering the climate change linkages and other factors behind this new peril, even as nations continue their struggle against virulent viruses and cataclysmic cyclones.

You can access Down To Earth's coverage of the locust crisis here: www.downtoearth.org.in

For more details

Souparno Banerjee,

The CSE Media Resource Centre,
souparno@cseindia.org
, 99108 64339

 

 

Webinar Recording
Presentations
Locusts, cyclones in the time of COVID-19: the climate impacts will not wait
By: Sunita Narain, Director General, CSE
Upsurge overview 2018–2020
By: Keith Cressman
Speaker
SUNITA NARAIN
director general, CSE,
New Delhi
SHAGUN KAPIL
senior reporter, Down To Earth,
New Delhi, India
KEITH CRESSMAN
senior desert
locust officer, Food
and Agriculture
Organization (FAO), Rome
RICHARD MARK MBARAM
technical advisor to the
minister of agriculture,
Federal Ministry of
Agriculture and Rural
Development, Nigeria