Insecticide use against desert locust in the Horn of Africa 2019–2021 reveals a pressing need for change

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Mar 20, 2023, 8:12 pm885 ptsTrendingInterestingTop
In work published in Agronomy, the TMG Research gGmbH study team traced a highly destructive desert locust invasion in the Eastern Africa and Horn region between 2019-2021. Ethiopia and Kenya sprayed well over a million hectares of territory with damaging nerve agents malathion and chlorpyrifos, both from the…

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