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FAO project OSRO/GLO/109/GER - Phase 1: Livelihood response to mitigate impacts of desert locust invasion on food security and livelihoods

Country Kenya
Year 2021
Copyright ©FAO/Patrick Meinhardt
Description

05 November 2021, Kamuthe Village, Garissa, Kenya - Ebla Isaack, 65, carries one of her chickens at her home. The combined effects of crop and pasture losses caused by desert locust, COVID-19 related mitigation measures, and consecutive below-average rainy seasons have placed communities in the arid and semi-arid lands of Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia at risk of severe food insecurity and loss of livelihood.