{"id":7902,"date":"2021-01-14T17:43:52","date_gmt":"2021-01-14T17:43:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/?p=150161"},"modified":"2021-01-14T17:43:52","modified_gmt":"2021-01-14T17:43:52","slug":"world-in-much-better-place-to-fight-desert-locust-scourge-uns-fao","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/01\/14\/world-in-much-better-place-to-fight-desert-locust-scourge-uns-fao\/","title":{"rendered":"World in \u2018much better place\u2019 to fight desert locust scourge \u2013 UN\u2019s FAO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Compared to last year, everything is in place to successfully fight the devastating desert locust swarms that have been threatening food supplies and livelihoods across the Horn of Africa region, according to the senior UN Food and Agriculture Organization (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fao.org\/home\/feed\/view\/en\/\" title=\"United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization\" class=\"word-link\"  rel=\"noopener\">FAO<\/a>) official, in charge of forecasting the pest\u2019s movements.<\/p>\n<p>Charlotta Lomas spoke to Keith Cressman, who said that $80 million was still needed to control the scourge, through the coming months.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/2021\/01\/14\/world-in-much-better-place-to-fight-desert-locust-scourge-uns-fao\/\">Radio Free<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Compared to last year, everything is in place to successfully fight the devastating desert locust swarms that have been threatening food supplies and livelihoods across the Horn of\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":702,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72,342,4,73],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7902"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/702"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7902"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7902\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7903,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7902\/revisions\/7903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}