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Provide emergency funding to safeguard anti-locust operations in East Africa

Submitted by Callum Tennant on Tuesday 26th January 2021

Published on Tuesday 2nd February 2021

Current status: Closed

Closed: Monday 2nd August 2021

Signatures: 25

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2020 ~ Africa ~ Britain ~ Dairy ~ Devastated ~ Devastating ~ East Africa ~ foreign aid ~ fund ~ Leading ~ security ~ UK

Petition Action

Provide emergency funding to safeguard anti-locust operations in East Africa

Petition Details

Aircraft fighting a locust invasion in East Afria will stop flying, unless £28m in emergency funding is secured.

Preventative action in locust epidemics is vital. Without action: livelihoods, food security and stability will be devastated.

UK aid can solve this crisis and keep planes flying.

Additional Information

This year the UK government cut foreign aid by £5bn. The UK government could fund this lifesaving initiative, if it reversed just 0.56% of those cuts.

This is an opportunity for a Global Britain to move proactively in preventing a humanitarian crisis.

Anti-locust operations since January 2020 alone have helped avoid crop and dairy losses worth an est $1.2bn.

This action is the embodiment of UK aid goals, that we should: "Focus our efforts where the UK can make a world-leading difference."


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