Minimum information to be included in extension materials for local populations

Minimum information to be included in extension materials for local populations

FAO Programme to improve national and regional locust management in Caucasus and Central Asia (CCA)

Year of publication 2018

Place of publication Rome, Italy ;

Pages 5p.

Publisher FAO ;

Product type Document

Edition 1

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Language English

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Locusts and grasshoppers are serious threats to agriculture in the Caucasus and Central Asia (CCA). Three locust pests, the Italian (CIT), the Moroccan (DMA) and the Migratory (LMI) locusts, jeopardize food security and livelihoods in both regions as well as in adjacent areas of northern Afghanistan and the southern Russian Federation. Over 25 million hectares of cultivated areas are potentially at risk. Most of the affected countries in the Caucasus and Central Asia region still have insufficient resources for locust monitoring and control operations, including shortage of experienced staff and up-to-date monitoring, communication, positioning and control equipment and techniques. In 2020, the “Project for Improvement of Locust Management (Phase 2)” (GCP/INT/384/JCA) has been approved to the benefit of six Central Asian countries, namely Afghanistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan.Project overall objective is to contribute to food security and livelihoods of the rural populations in Central Asia by preventing and limiting the threats of damage to crops and rangelands posed by locusts, in the respect of human health and the environment. This project builds up on previously Japan/JICA-funded project on locusts in Central Asia, successfully implemented in three countries (Afghanistan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan) between 2015 and 2019. Phase 2 thus represents a continuation and expansion of the previous one, including three additional countries (Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan).