The country often suffers from drought and locust plagues.

Low resolution instruments provided valuable data for indirectly estimating rainfall, drought and locust infestations.

The experimental model made possible the production of maps for analysis of plague history.

We have provided assistance to combat epidemic diseases and overcome the effects of natural disasters including floods, droughts and infestation by locusts and other pests.

This determination has been further strengthened by the recent plague of locusts, which has demonstrated both the need for this activity and the inadequacy of measures taken so far.

As a result, by the summer of 2004, the locusts had multiplied dramatically, infesting eight countries.

Several devastating natural disasters have also occurred in the past year, including hurricanes in the Caribbean, locusts in the Sahel and the tsunami in the Indian Ocean.

This forum will present the latest international results on possible utilization of space technologies (telecommunications, remote sensing, meteorology, location, navigation etc.) to prevent or mitigate the effects of disasters, especially floods, forest fires, desertification and locusts. RUSSIAN FEDERATION

Other threats include drought, famine, locust infestations, extreme poverty and the debt burden stifling the economies of our countries.

The objective of RAMSES is to improve the use of Meteosat and NOAA AVHRR data for the early detection of locust areas in Africa in association with locally collected, georeferenced field data and the historical desert locust database which resides at FAO in a dedicated GIS called SWARMS.

There, earlier availability of funding would have enabled the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) to spray locust larvae in the early stages of infestation and thereby prevent the spread of the problem.

So We let loose on them floods and locusts, and vermin, frogs and blood how many different signs. But they still remained arrogant, for they were a people full of sin.

We therefore sent against them the flood and the locusts and the vermin (or insects) and the frogs and the blood separate signs in response they were proud and were a guilty people.

So We let loose upon them the flood and the locusts, the lice and the frogs, the blood, distinct signs but they waxed proud and were a sinful people.

Thereafter We sent upon them the flood, and the locusts, and the lice, and the frogs, and the blood signs detailed yet they remained stiff necked and they, were a people sinful.

So We sent on them the flood, the locusts, the lice, the frogs, and the blood (as a succession of) manifest signs, yet they remained arrogant, and they were of those people who were Mujrimun (criminals, polytheists, sinners, etc.).

So We let loose upon them the flood, and the locusts, and the lice, and the frogs, and blood all explicit signs but they were too arrogant. They were a sinful people.

Then We afflicted them with a great flood and locusts, and the lice, and the frogs, and the blood. All these were distinct signs and yet they remained haughty. They were a wicked people.

So We sent against them the flood and the locusts and the vermin and the frogs and the blood a succession of clear signs. But they were arrogant and became a guilty folk.

So We sent against them a flood and locusts, lice, frogs and blood, as distinct signs. But they acted arrogantly, and they were a guilty lot.

So We sent upon them floods, locusts, lice, frogs, and blood. (All these were) clear signs, yet they were proud against them, for they were wicked people.

So We sent upon them the flood and locusts and lice and frogs and blood as distinct signs, but they were arrogant and were a criminal people.

We sent upon them widespread calamities floods of locusts, lice, frogs, and blood. All were distinct miracles but these criminals all the time remained proud.

Therefore We sent upon them widespread death, and the locusts and the lice and the frog and the blood, clear signs but they behaved haughtily and they were a guilty people.

Then We afflicted them with storms, and locusts, and lice, and frogs, and blood so many clear signs. But they were steeped in arrogance, for they were a people given to sin.

So We sent (plagues) on them Wholesale death, Locusts, Lice, Frogs, And Blood Signs openly self explained but they were steeped in arrogance, a people given to sin.

In addition, the floods, hurricanes, snowstorms, locust infestation and droughts that have occurred across the globe have caused widespread devastation and a loss of livelihood for hundreds of millions of people.

On account of the plague of locusts, however, these measures have proved to be inadequate, so that a new strategy is needed in this area.

Locust Capitalism

That's not a grasshopper. It's a locust!

In Algeria, prediction of locust plagues was based on ground and satellite based meteorological and vegetation data from SPOT and ALSAT 1.

What the swarming locust has left, the great locust has eaten. What the great locust has left, the grasshopper has eaten. What the grasshopper has left, the caterpillar has eaten.

What the swarming locust has left, the great locust has eaten. What the great locust has left, the grasshopper has eaten. What the grasshopper has left, the caterpillar has eaten.

That which the palmerworm hath left hath the locust eaten and that which the locust hath left hath the cankerworm eaten and that which the cankerworm hath left hath the caterpiller eaten.

That which the palmerworm hath left hath the locust eaten and that which the locust hath left hath the cankerworm eaten and that which the cankerworm hath left hath the caterpiller eaten.

This is a locust. There can be 80 million of them in a square kilometer, and yet they don't collide with one another.

In Africa, despite considerable warnings nine months prior, a massive desert locust upsurge infested 10 West and North African countries in the summer of 2004, threatening millions of hectares of crops.

While this locust infestation was the worst in a decade, the problem is a recurrent one that calls for a more systematic, preventative approach.

The locusts have no king, yet they advance in ranks.

The locusts have no king, yet they advance in ranks.

The locusts have no king, yet go they forth all of them by bands

The locusts have no king, yet go they forth all of them by bands

RAMSES Reconnaissance and Management System of the Environment of Schistocerca (FAO)

These guys, Grasshopper.

How, Clint? Railroad men, they call themselves.