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Technology is Africa’s remedy to food crisis

The swarms of voracious desert locusts that are devastating farms in East Africa have startled local farmers. The locusts have descended on East Africa in alarming numbers never seen in decades.

The tiny pests, if not controlled, have the capacity to fuel food insecurity and could exacerbate existing conflicts in an already precarious region.

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