24 January 2020, Katitika village, Kitui county, Kenya - A farmer tries to save her crops from desert locusts. The desert locusts have swarmed in Kenya from Somalia and Ethiopia, destroying farmlands.

Ravenous swarms threaten entire East Africa subregion. FAO scales up its emergency response with a massive, border-spanning campaign needed to combat locust upsurge in East Africa. Given the scale of the current swarms, aerial control is the only effective means to reduce the locust numbers.