Desperate remedies. (Africa's plague of locusts) From: The Economist (US) | Date: June 11, 1988 | COPYRIGHT 1988 Economist Newspaper Ltd. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

IN THE past three years an outbreak of locusts in Ethiopia has escalated into a plague that is threatening all of north Africa and is edging beyond. Exceptional rains have helped. So, some experts believe, did a ban demanded by western environmentalists on dieldrin, the insecticide once used to control locusts. They think that the risks it poses are preferable to the devastation of crops that has occurred without it.

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