Italy04 May 2023, Rome, Italy - FAO Director-General QU Dongyu (C) and Swiss Ambassador Pio Wennubst (R) attend the ribbon cutting ceremony and the Inauguration of the Swiss Centre for Locust and Migratory...

Italy04 May 2023, Rome, Italy - FAO Director-General QU Dongyu attends the Inauguration of the Swiss Centre for Locust and Migratory Pests. FAO Headquarters

Italy04 May 2023, Rome, Italy - FAO Director-General QU Dongyu attends the Inauguration of the Swiss Centre for Locust and Migratory Pests. FAO Headquarters

Italy04 May 2023, Rome, Italy - FAO Director-General QU Dongyu attends the Inauguration of the Swiss Centre for Locust and Migratory Pests. FAO Headquarters

Italy04 May 2023, Rome, Italy - FAO Director-General QU Dongyu attends the Inauguration of the Swiss Centre for Locust and Migratory Pests. FAO Headquarters

Italy04 May 2023, Rome, Italy - FAO Director-General QU Dongyu attends the Inauguration of the Swiss Centre for Locust and Migratory Pests. FAO Headquarters

Italy04 May 2023, Rome, Italy - FAO Director-General QU Dongyu attends the Inauguration of the Swiss Centre for Locust and Migratory Pests. FAO Headquarters

Italy04 May 2023, Rome, Italy - FAO Director-General QU Dongyu attends the Inauguration of the Swiss Centre for Locust and Migratory Pests. FAO Headquarters

Italy04 May 2023, Rome, Italy - FAO Director-General QU Dongyu attends the Inauguration of the Swiss Centre for Locust and Migratory Pests. FAO Headquarters

Italy04 May 2023, Rome, Italy - FAO Director-General QU Dongyu attends the Inauguration of the Swiss Centre for Locust and Migratory Pests. FAO Headquarters

Italy04 May 2023, Rome, Italy - FAO Director-General QU Dongyu attends the Inauguration of the Swiss Centre for Locust and Migratory Pests. FAO Headquarters

Italy04 May 2023, Rome, Italy - FAO Director-General QU Dongyu attends the Inauguration of the Swiss Centre for Locust and Migratory Pests. FAO Headquarters

Italy04 May 2023, Rome, Italy - FAO Director-General QU Dongyu attends the Inauguration of the Swiss Centre for Locust and Migratory Pests. FAO Headquarters

Italy04 May 2023, Rome, Italy - FAO Director-General QU Dongyu attends the Inauguration of the Swiss Centre for Locust and Migratory Pests. FAO Headquarters

Italy04 May 2023, Rome, Italy - (Left to Right) Rodrigo De La Puerta (CSL), Ambassador Pio Wennubst, FAO Director-General QU Dongyu and Laurent Thomas FAO Deputy Director attend the Inauguration of the Swi...

Italy04 May 2023, Rome, Italy - FAO Director-General QU Dongyu and Ambassador Pio Wennubst attend the Inauguration of the Swiss Centre for Locust and Migratory Pests. FAO Headquarters.

Italy04 May 2023, Rome, Italy - FAO Director-General QU Dongyu (C) and Swiss Ambassador Pio Wennubst (R) attend the ribbon cutting ceremony and the Inauguration of the Swiss Centre for Locust and Migratory...

Italy04 May 2023, Rome, Italy - FAO Director-General QU Dongyu (C) and Swiss Ambassador Pio Wennubst (R) attend the ribbon cutting ceremony and the Inauguration of the Swiss Centre for Locust and Migratory...

Namibia19 April 2021, Ekamba, Namibia - A young woman walks amidst a swarm of locusts on a hot summer afternoon as she makes her way to the local market place in Ekamba, a small village settlement located in...

AfghanistanClose up of Moroccan locusts on the ground. The insects are still at hopper stage, approximately in the third phase, when they are still unable to fly. At this stage, it is easy to treat them with ins...

AfghanistanClose up of Moroccan locusts on the ground. The insects are still at hopper stage, approximately in the third phase, when they are still unable to fly. At this stage, it is easy to treat them with ins...

AfghanistanMechanical locust control: farmers dig a hole in the ground while others collect the locusts in a net. The net is then emptied into the hole and covered with earth. This is effective when the locusts...

AfghanistanSpraying insecticide from a pick-up truck. The truck moves slowly between two men holding a flag and, in this way, covers the entire area plagued by locusts. The flag also indicates the direction of t...

AfghanistanMoroccan locusts resting on a small plant. Early in the morning, when the temperature is still not high, locusts react and move very slowly. This is the ideal time to attack them, either by spraying t...

AfghanistanSpraying insecticide from a pick-up truck. The truck moves slowly between two men holding a flag and, in this way, covers the entire area plagued by locusts. The flag also indicates the direction of t...

MaliA farmer holds what is left of his millet crop that had been devoured by Senegalese grasshoppers. - - Grasshopper Control Campaign in the Sahel. The 1985 rains, breaking the worst drought in a decade...

MaliA tiny Senegalese grasshopper, one of millions that descended upon ripening millet and sorghum plants, in some cases devouring total crop areas. - - Grasshopper Control Campaign in the Sahel. The 1985...

MaliA Cavalaipus cymleiferus, one of several grasshopper species that threatened thousands of food crops in the Sahel. Its young hoppers attack germinating cereal crops. - - Grasshopper Control Campaign i...

BrazilAn FAO expert (centre) explaining air survey techniques to trainees attending a course on the control of locusts and grasshoppers in the Central West region. - - Locust and Grasshopper Control. In 198...

MaliWomen weave mats in the village of Durukini, north of Nara, one of many villages in the Sahel facing catastrophic food losses from the grasshopper infestation. - - Grasshopper Control Campaign in the...

MaliA praying mantis on a millet head waits to feed on some of the pests attaching the plants, while ground scouts survey the damage done to the crop. - - Grasshopper Control Campaign in the Sahel. The 19...

MaliA USAID consultant, part of the ground team observation unit, receives the latest report on local wind conditions and grasshopper sightings from a ground observer. - - Grasshopper Control Campaign in...

MaliAn Anacridum melanorhodon or "tree locust", one of several pests that threatened thousands of food crops in the Sahel. - - Grasshopper Control Campaign in the Sahel. The 1985 rains, breaking the worst...