Turning a Locust Invasion into a Fertilizer Boon

They say when life throws you lemons, you make lemonade. But what happens when life throws swarms of desert locusts your way? You could make fertilizer from those locusts, as a team of innovators in Kenya demonstrated after a devastating invasion.  Running from 2018 to early 2022, the massive locust outbreak that hit parts of Eastern Africa and the Middle East destroyed hundreds of thousands of acres of crops and posed a severe food security threat to about 3 million people.  But research on desert locusts has revealed an interesting fact: The voracious insects have a rich composition of nitrogen