Countries in this subregion (5)

Central Asia
Central Asia
Central Asia is within:
Region:	Asia

Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan

Species gallery

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.

Organization name	Acronym	Website	Type	Focus	Geographic purview
FAO Locust Watch in Caucasus and Central Asia	CCA	View	Intergovernmental Organization	Education, Information Hub, Governance	Afghanistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia (country), Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Russia, Kyrgyzstan
Japan International Cooperation Agency	JICA	View	Government	Governance, Management	Central Asia
Kazakh Research Institute for Plant Protection and Quarantine	NIIZKR	View	Government	Research, Management, Education	Kazakhstan
Ministry of Agriculture Kazakhstan		View	Government	Management, Governance	Kazakhstan

Resources

Name	Year published	Resource link	Descriptive keyword	Language	Geographic purview	Author
Desert locust technical series			History, Management, Set	English, French, Arabic	Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Yemen, Mauritania, Madagascar, Morocco, Kazakhstan, Senegal, South Africa, Russia, Australia, Niger, Mali	Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
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

Highlighted media coverage

Name	Author	Language	Species purview	Substance	Resource link	Year published
Kazakhstan Tries To Ward Off Locust Invasion		English		News article		2024
Locusts infested about 2,000 hectares of farm land in Aksy		English		News article		2022

Projects

Name	Acronym	Image	Status	Project leads	Related organization
Locust-Tec		File:File:Locust-Tec image.jpeg	Completed		German Aerospace Center