Integrated Regional Information Networks (IRIN), a news organization dedicated to reporting humanitarian issues, reports that the Tsetse fly is responsible yearly for $4B in agricultural losses in Africa. Sterilization of male flies has worked, most notably on the Island of Zanzibar, which is now a Tsetse fly free zone. Regardless of this success, money for Tsetse fly control is drying up or being diverted to combat other diseases. Read on ... AFRICA: Tsetse fly costs agriculture billions every year
Thursday, May 14, 2009
Tsetse, the Poverty Fly
Integrated Regional Information Networks (IRIN), a news organization dedicated to reporting humanitarian issues, reports that the Tsetse fly is responsible yearly for $4B in agricultural losses in Africa. Sterilization of male flies has worked, most notably on the Island of Zanzibar, which is now a Tsetse fly free zone. Regardless of this success, money for Tsetse fly control is drying up or being diverted to combat other diseases. Read on ... AFRICA: Tsetse fly costs agriculture billions every year
