食品安全，健康和環境危機在西非如鼠疫爆發

食品安全，健康和環境危機在西非如鼠疫爆發

?羅華，1月23日 ?食與環境危機的陰影一直在籠罩在西非的上空，?以千萬計的毛虫大肆侵略利比亞北邊的村莊，大片莊稼被?壞，驚慌失措的村民們??逃離家鄉。

食品安全，健康和?境危机在西非如鼠疫爆?

???，1月23日 ?食与?境危机的?影一直在?罩在西非的上空，?以千万?的毛虫大肆侵略利比?北?的村庄，大片庄稼被?坏，惊慌失措的村民???逃离家?。

?合??食与????(FAO)日前?，因?大量毛虫?生的排泄物，北利比?村庄里的水井和水道?在已?不适于人?使用。

?是利比?30年以?最??重的一次?害，?已上升??家?急情?。

????警告?除非?快解?毛虫危害，?种生物很有可能侵入到??几??，塞拉利昂，科特迪瓦。

?些毛虫被??"莎草粘虫"(又?非洲粘虫)

根据?境署?家研究，非洲粘虫是2008年在肯尼?山山?附近逾3万?玉米田?重歉收的主要原因。

上一回西?非洲粘虫爆?是在2006年的加?。

非洲粘虫的爆??于健康，?境可持?性都是巨大威?。而??者恰好也在?合?千年?展?划的8?目?中。

2月份，?合??境?划署?在其于????行的年度全球理事?上?布一?食品安全?告。

Food Security, Health & Environment at Risk As Pest Outbreak Looms in West Africa

Nairobi, 23 January - The spectre of a food crisis and an environmental emergency is looming in West Africa as tens of millions of caterpillars advance through villages in northern Liberia, destroying crops and sending terrified villagers fleeing from their homes.

The UN's Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has announced that many wells and waterways in several northern Liberia villages are now unfit for human consumption because of the huge volume of feces dropped by the caterpillars.

The plague is Liberia's worst in 30 years and the situation has been described as a national emergency.

The FAO has warned that unless the invasion is quickly contained, it is likely to escalate into a regional crisis involving neighbouring Guinea, Sierra Leone and Cöte d'Ivoire. Hordes of the caterpillars are said to be already advancing across the border with Guinea.

The caterpillars are suspected to be African armyworms (Spodoptera exempta).

According to UNEP experts, African armyworms were responsible for destroying over 30,000 hectares of maize around the Mount Kenya region in 2008.

The last African armyworm outbreak in West Africa occurred in Ghana in