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Multilateral evaluation of the 2003-2005 desert locust control campaign









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    Évaluation multilatérale de la campagne 2003–05 contre le criquet pèlerin 2005
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    Faire face aux urgences acridiennes est un rôle important de la FAO depuis 1951, année où le Comité de lutte contre le criquet pèlerin (DLCC) a été constitué. La FAO coordonne les prévisions concernant le criquet pèlerin sur la base de rapports provenant des unités nationales de lutte antiacridienne et des informations météorologiques et, en cas d’infestation, coordonne l’action internationale. Les services spécifiques fournis par la FAO pour lutter contre les recrudescences acridiennes comprenn ent: une tribune pour l’examen des politiques, des stratégies et des plans; la collecte de données pour la publication de bulletins et d’alertes rapides; le renforcement des unités nationales de lutte antiacridienne et la promotion de la coopération au niveau régional; la déclaration des urgences acridiennes, l’organisation de l’aide internationale et la fourniture d’avis techniques et d’autres appuis aux activités de lutte.
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    Technical guidance on desert locust – Early warning system and sustainable management of transboundary pests, with special reference to desert locust (Schistocerca gregaria [Forskål]) in South Asia 2022
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    Although locusts are a type of grasshopper, they differ physiologically and in their behaviour. When environmental conditions allow, locusts multiply rapidly so that billions of them can aggregate and migrate vast distances devouring every growing green thing in their path. Plagues of locusts have occured for a long time and are even referenced in the Old Testament of the Bible. The magnitude of damage and crop loss that they can cause is enormous and beyond imagination. They have been the cause of starvation across continents in the past. The desert locust, Schistocerca gregaria (Forskål) is the most widespread and destructive of all locust species. When they invade they can cover about 30 million square kilometres and can include all or parts of 64 countries in the northwest and east of Africa, the Arabian Peninsula and central Asia, including Afghanistan, India, the Islamic Republic of Iran and Pakistan, among others.
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