This study, awarded to Kula Vyema Centre by CIMMYT, seeks to understand and quantify the impacts of desert locusts on productivity and livelihoods in major agricultural areas; marginal production areas and pastoralist areas. As such, data collection in the three zones focusing on the last season of year 2019, the whole of year 2020, and the first months of year 2021 was collected using phone-based focus group discussions (FGDs) separately for men and women. Kula Vyema Centre is working with CIMMYT in analyzing the data to develop a journal paper. The project was part of a larger project “African Crop Epidemiology System (ACES)”, led by Cambridge University, with the aim of developing modelling framework to inform surveillance and management of desert locusts in East Africa.