Afghan farmers despair as locusts plague precious crops / 33HJ8FU
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Hundreds of thousands of locusts have descended on crops in northern Afghanistan, under the helpless gaze of farmers and their families already threatened with famine.
After feasting on fallow wheat fields they have laid eggs to hatch anew next spring, continuing a cycle of destruction in a nation where nine in 10 families already struggle to afford food, according to the UN. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES ARRANGED IN SEQUENCES