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Poster, bannerSafety measures during control operations - Desert Locust community-based messaging 2020
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This poster is for Desert Locust community-based messaging and provides recommendations on safety measures to take during control operations. -
Brochure, flyer, fact-sheetUrgent action for capacity building to control desert locust infestation in the Islamic Republic of Iran
To further enhance national technical capacity for early warning, monitoring and management of desert locust
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No results found.In 2020, the Islamic Republic of Iran is experiencing the worst outbreak of desert locust in 50 years. This brochure provides a brief description of the context, the necessity to implement the project, to enhance national technical capacity for early warning, monitoring and management of desert locust and the expected results in the country. Moreover, FAO's mandate and activities, its contribution, project objectives as well as the in-country partnership and the financial support provided for this project are also highlighted in this publication. -
ProjectUrgent Action for Capacity Building to Control Desert Locust Infestation in The Islamic Republic of Iran - TCP/IRA/3801 2024
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No results found.On 26 January 2019, almost a week after the Plant Protection Office (PPO) received the 21 January 2019 warning from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) Commission for Controlling the Desert Locust in South-West Asia (SWAC), Desert Locust swarms arrived in the Nakhilou district in the Islamic Republic of Iran’s province of Hormozgan. The PPO took immediate action, establishing a Desert Locust central headquarters, and, sending out warning messages to seven provinces that were also at risk of being infested by the swarm. All existing capacity at the provincial level, including managers, PPO experts and the Control Network staff, numbering nearly 500 people, was used to keep track of the swarm and monitor entrance points, existent egg-laying zones and existent mature locust-infested districts. Supplementing these efforts, 40 Ultra Low Volume (ULV) truck-mounted sprayers, 150 offroad vehicles and 30 000 litres of deltamethrin and malathion were used to eradicate locust populations in the first phase of their invasion. Additionally, ten plane-mounted pesticide sprayers from the Special Services Company saw use in the seven affected provinces. By the end of the 2019 infestation, PPO had treated more than 760 000 hectares of land across nine provinces in order to control the Desert Locust outbreak and mitigate its impact on food security. By the end of that year, two additional provinces had been affected.
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