army worm

Biotechnology Part of the Solution to Africa’s Food Insecurity, Scientists Say

By Miriam Gathigah
A growing number of African countries are increasingly becoming food insecure as delayed and insufficient rainfall, as well as crop damaging pests such as the ongoing outbreak of the fall armyworm, cause the most severe maize crisis in the last decade.

Southern Africa’s Marshall Plan to Stop Voracious Crop Worm

By Busani Bafana
Southern African countries have agreed on a multi-pronged plan to increase surveillance and research to contain the fall army worm, which has cut forecast regional maize harvests by up to ten percent, according to a senior U.N. Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) official.