Cameroon: Locusts in Cameroon – From Pest to Seasonal Asset

People fleeing the wartorn north-west region are catching grasshoppers, plucking, spicing, cooking and selling them. The profit helps keep children in school and households fed.

A seasonal grasshopper, known as mungwin by Cameroonians, saved Solange Ngwari’s life and allowed her to send her daughter Mbah back to school. The two lost their home in Batibo, in Cameroon’s north-west region, when the Anglophone crisis worsened in 2017.

What started out as a rallying cry for better treatment of the…