Afghanistan
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| Afghanistan is within: | |
| Region: | Asia |
| Subregion: | Southern Asia |
Species gallery
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Organizations
Locusts and grasshoppers are typically managed through a national plant protection system led by a country’s plant protection organization, ministry of agriculture, or equivalent biosecurity authority. They are often supported by specialized pest control branches, natural resource agencies, and regional bodies when outbreaks cross borders. These agencies are usually the first point of contact for surveillance, reporting, permits, quarantine decisions, and control operations. If the country belongs to one of the FAO locust commissions, those bodies provide a regional framework for early warning, field surveillance, information sharing, and coordinated response, helping countries align monitoring, contingency planning, and control actions across borders.
Resources
| Name | Species purview | Year published | Resource link | Descriptive keyword | Language | Geographic purview | Author |
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| Desert locust field handbook | 2020 | View | Species identification, Management | English | Israel, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Morocco, Algeria, Niger, Mauritania, Chad, Mali, Lebanon, Sudan, Afghanistan, Kuwait, Jordan, United Arab Emirates, Somalia, South Sudan, Pakistan, Ethiopia, Libya, Kenya, India, Oman, Bahrain, Djibouti, Yemen, Uganda, Egypt, Eritrea, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Palestine, Tanzania, Syria, Iran, Turkey | Centre for Agriculture and Bioscience International | |
| Dociostaurus maroccanus Monograph | 2023 | View | Morphology, Distribution, Ecology, Population dynamics, Management, Identification | Russian | Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Algeria, Russia, Georgia (country), Afghanistan, Iraq, Azerbaijan, Italy | FAO Locust Watch in Caucasus and Central Asia, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations | |
| FAO Locust Watch bulletin for locusts in Caucasus and Central Asia | View | Forecasting, Information hub, Emergency alerts, Bundle | English | Afghanistan, Georgia (country), Russia, Uzbekistan, Armenia, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Azerbaijan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan | FAO Locust Watch in Caucasus and Central Asia, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations | ||
| FAO Locust Watch Locusts in Caucasus and Central Asia (CCA) meeting, research, workshop, survey report collection | 2022 | Report, Monitoring, Public health, Forecasting, Management, Workshop, Collection | English | Afghanistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia (country), Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan | FAO Locust Watch in Caucasus and Central Asia, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations | ||
| FAO’s technical series on locust management in the Caucasus and Central Asia | 2026 | Capacity building, Survey, Forecasting, Monitoring, Preparedness, Regional cooperation, Transboundary pests, Locust outbreaks, Management, Series, Pesticide management, Pesticides | English | Georgia (country), Azerbaijan, Armenia, Afghanistan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Russia | Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, FAO Locust Watch in Caucasus and Central Asia, Alexandre Latchininsky | ||
| Improving national and regional locust management in Caucasus and Central Asia | 2015 | View | Locust outbreaks, Climate change, Monitoring, Early warning, Public health, Geographic Information System (GIS), Management | English | Afghanistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Georgia (country) | Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations | |
| Italian Locust Calliptamus italicus (Linnaeus, 1758) Morphology, Ecology, Distribution, Population Management | 2022 | View | Identification, Distribution, Ecology, Biology, Population dynamics, Behavior, Morphology | Russian | Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia (country), Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Afghanistan, China, Algeria, Italy, Spain, Portugal, France, Belgium, Germany, Greece, Bulgaria, Moldova, Romania, Serbia, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Slovenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Hungary, Belarus, Ukraine, Austria, Kosovo, Cyprus, Turkey, Pakistan | Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Michael Sergeev, Alexandre Latchininsky, M.K. Childebaev, I.A. Vankova, F.A. Gapparov, V.E. Kambulin, E.O. Kokanova, L.B. Pshenitsyna, I.I. Temreshev, M.E. Chernyakhovsky, N.N. Sobolev, V.V. Molodtsov | |
| The FAO commission for controlling the desert locust in South-West Asia | 2014 | View | Culture, History, Report | English | India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iran | Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations |
Highlighted media coverage
| Name | Author | Language | Species purview | Substance | Resource link | Year published |
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| Afghan farmers despair as locusts plague precious crops | English | News article | 2023 | |||
| Afghan northwest hit by plague of locusts | English | News article | 2008 | |||
| Afghanistan/Moroccan locust outbreak | English | News article | 2024 | |||
| Locust invasion hits crops in Takhar | Arabic | Video | 2023 | |||
| Locust timebomb looms in Afghanistan after insects lay billions of eggs in cropland | English | News article | 2023 | |||
| Locusts destroy Afghanistan crops amid severe food crisis | English | News article | 2023 | |||
| Locusts Invade Northern Afghan Provinces | English | News article | 2023 |
Projects
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