Moroccan Locust (DMA) hopper development was in progress in Central Asia (CA) and in Azerbaijan. In Uzbekistan, dense hopper bands formed in the south. Italian Locust (CIT) hatching started in Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan....

Moroccan Locust (DMA) hatching started significantly earlier than last year in Tajikistan, as a result of a warm weather and close to the normal rainfall in February. In Afghanistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan, DMA...

The new “Project for Improvement of Locust Management (Phase 2)” was launched on 1st December 2020 at the occasion of the first Project Steering Committee. Representatives of all main stakeholders were present: the...

The Technical Workshop on Locusts in CCA was successfully held in November, as every year since 2009 but for the first time remotely. It gathered the participating countries in the FAO “Programme to...

A Refresher Course on locust monitoring and information management, including the Automated System for Data Collection (ASDC) and the Caucasus and Central Asian Locust Management System (CCALM), as well as pesticide risk reduction,...