Name: 非洲之角的新一輪蝗蟲潮 (A new wave of locust swarms in the Horn of Africa)
Uploaded: 2020-12-17T18:35:24.000Z
Duration: 1 min 51 s

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the Horn of Africa started 2020 amid clouds of desert Locusts on is set to end the year the same way, with the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization warning that extensive breeding is giving rise to a new generation of the crop devouring pest.

非洲之角開始 2020 年在雲的沙漠蝗蟲上是設置以同樣的方式，與聯合國的糧食和農業組織警告廣泛的繁殖正在引起新一代的作物吞噬害蟲。

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Despite what the F a O calls an unprecedented large scale response campaign, Locusts have remained a persistent threat, something Fatima Abby del Mar, a farmer in Ethiopia's Somali region, knows all too well.

儘管F a O稱之為前所未有的大規模應對運動，蝗蟲仍然是一個持續的威脅，衣索匹亞索馬里地區的農民Fatima Abby del Mar對此深有體會。

Her community has been invaded by the swarms three times this year.

她所在的小區今年已經被蜂群入侵了三次。

It has caused problems on our farm, and we couldn't produce the number of bags of Bali that we used to harvest from the field.

這給我們農場帶來了問題，我們無法生產出以前從田裡收穫的巴厘島袋數。

What to give the kids onto the animals because the remaining green leaves aren't enough for them, and there are no cereals for the kids.

給孩子們吃什麼到動物身上，因為剩下的綠葉不夠吃，也沒有給孩子們吃麥片。

The F A O says more than 3.2 million acres of locust infestations have been treated since January on that control operations have prevented the loss of 800 million U.

F A O說，自1月以來，超過320萬英畝的蝗蟲害已被處理，控制行動已經防止了8億U.S.的損失。

Dollars worth of cereal, enough to feed 18 million people a year.

美元的麥片，足夠1800萬人一年的食物。

But unusually heavy rains have created the ideal conditions for extensive readings on swarms are already forming and threatening to spread.

但異常的大雨為廣泛讀取已經形成並有可能蔓延的蟲群創造了理想條件。

For communities across the Horn of Africa, that means starting 2021 without enough food.

對於整個非洲之角的社區來說，這意味著從2021年開始沒有足夠的糧食。

 In Ethiopia alone, the F A O estimates that nearly 13 million people will face acute food insecurity in the first half of the year. 

僅在衣索匹亞，糧農組織估計，今年上半年就有近1 300萬人面臨嚴重的糧食不安全問題。