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The summer of 2004 was not a good one for farmers in many West African countries. Locusts swarmed over their fields with all the force of a biblical plague, consuming crops and pasture and leaving devastation in their wake.
Image created by Jesse Allen, using SPOT Vegetation data provided by the United States Department of Agriculture Foreign Agriculture Service and processed by Jennifer Small and Assaf Anyamba, with the Global Inventory Modeling and Mapping Studies (GIMMS) Group at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center. Caption by Holli Riebeek and Assaf Anyamba.
Published August 15, 2008 Data acquired July 31, 2008