Eastern Africa
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| Eastern Africa is within: | |
| Region: | Africa |
| Subregion: | Sub-Saharan Africa |
Countries in this intermediate region (22)
British Indian Ocean Territory, Burundi, Comoros, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, French Southern Territories, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Mayotte, Mozambique, Rwanda, Réunion, Seychelles, Somalia, South Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe
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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| 2014 evaluation of field trials data on the efficacy and selectivity of insecticides on locusts and grasshoppers | 2014 | View | Pesticides, Management, Pesticide management, Chemical control, Information hub | English | Bahrain, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Jordan, Kuwait, Iraq, Lebanon, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Syria, United Arab Emirates, Yemen, Somalia | Commission for Controlling the Desert Locust in the Central Region, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations | |
| 2020 Appeal to the international community | 2020 | View | Appeal, Aid, Emergency response | English | Djibouti | Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Ministry of Agriculture, Water, Fishery, Livestock and Marine Resources | |
| Atlas of desert locust breeding habitats | 1997 | Breeding zones, Habitat, Map, Distribution, Biology, Ecology, Behavior, Phase polyphenism | English | Ethiopia, Senegal, Sudan, Djibouti, Somalia, Algeria, Mauritania, Mali, Egypt, Eritrea, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Oman, United Arab Emirates | Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, George Basil Popov, G.B. Popov | ||
| Behind the success of desert locust control | 2022 | View | Newsletter, Outbreaks, Management | English | Eritrea | ||
| Commission for Controlling the Desert Locust in the Central Region (CRC) ad hoc, emergency, other meetings | 1971 | Management, Survey, Biology, Monitoring, Toxicology, Physiology, Ecology, Forecasting, Locust commission meeting, Collection | English | Bahrain, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Jordan, Kuwait, Iraq, Lebanon, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Syria, United Arab Emirates, Yemen, Somalia | Commission for Controlling the Desert Locust in the Central Region, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations | ||
| Commission for Controlling the Desert Locust in the Central Region (CRC) committee meetings | 1971 | Management, Survey, Biology, Monitoring, Toxicology, Physiology, Ecology, Forecasting, Locust commission meeting, Bundle | English | Bahrain, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Jordan, Kuwait, Iraq, Lebanon, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Syria, United Arab Emirates, Yemen, Somalia | Commission for Controlling the Desert Locust in the Central Region, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations | ||
| Commission for Controlling the Desert Locust in the Central Region (CRC) survey reports | 1971 | Management, Survey, Biology, Monitoring, Toxicology, Physiology, Ecology, Forecasting, Locust commission meeting, Bundle | English | Bahrain, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Jordan, Kuwait, Iraq, Lebanon, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Syria, United Arab Emirates, Yemen, Somalia | Commission for Controlling the Desert Locust in the Central Region, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations | ||
| Commission for Controlling the Desert Locust in the Central Region (CRC) training and workshops | 1971 | Management, Survey, Biology, Monitoring, Toxicology, Physiology, Ecology, Forecasting, Locust commission meeting, Collection | English | Bahrain, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Jordan, Kuwait, Iraq, Lebanon, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Syria, United Arab Emirates, Yemen, Somalia | Commission for Controlling the Desert Locust in the Central Region, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations | ||
| Control of the locust plague in Madagascar 2014 | 2014 | View | Video, Management, Set, Promotional video | English, French | Madagascar | Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations | |
| Desert locust control in Somalia between 2019 and 2021 | 2022 | Biopesticide | English | Somalia | |||
| 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 | |
| Desert locust invasion responding to a crisis within a crisis | 2020 | View | Presentation, Outbreaks, Emergency response | English | Yemen, Eritrea, Sudan, South Sudan, Djibouti, Somalia, Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda | ||
| Desert locust master training manual | 2003 | View | Management, Training manual | English | Bahrain, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Jordan, Kuwait, Iraq, Lebanon, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Syria, United Arab Emirates, Yemen, Somalia | Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations | |
| Desert locust surveillance and control programmatic environmental assessment | 2020 | View | Monitoring, Environmental assessment, Management | English | Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia | United States Agency for International Development | |
| 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 | |||
| Desert locust upsurge progress report on the response in the Greater Horn of Africa and Yemen | 2020 | View | Locust outbreaks, Management, Report, Progress report | English | Bahrain, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Jordan, Kuwait, Iraq, Lebanon, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Syria, United Arab Emirates, Yemen, Somalia | Commission for Controlling the Desert Locust in the Central Region, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations | |
| East Africa desert locust crisis fact sheets | 2019, 2020, 2021 | Emergency response, Outbreaks, Series | English | Sudan, South Sudan, Ethiopia, Yemen, Somalia, Kenya, Uganda, Democratic Republic of the Congo | United States Agency for International Development | ||
| East Africa Hazards Watch Map | Map | English | Eastern Africa | IGAD Climate Prediction and Applications Centre | |||
| East Africa regional desert locust impact monitoring reports | 2021 | Locust outbreaks, Food security, Report, Set | English | Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, Uganda | The Food Security and Nutrition Working Group | ||
| Estimate the potential impact of DL resources control an outbreak campaign excel file worksheets | Chemical control, Report, Excel files, Series | English | Bahrain, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Jordan, Kuwait, Iraq, Lebanon, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Syria, United Arab Emirates, Yemen, Somalia | Commission for Controlling the Desert Locust in the Central Region, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations | |||
| FAO commission for controlling the desert locust in the central region fifty years fighting desert locust | 2016 | View | International development, Community development, Environmental assessment, Decision making | English | Bahrain, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Jordan, Kuwait, Iraq, Lebanon, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Syria, United Arab Emirates, Yemen, Somalia | Commission for Controlling the Desert Locust in the Central Region, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations | |
| FAO Infographic the 2020–2021 desert locust upsurge | 2022 | View | Management, Promotional documents | English | Eastern Africa | Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations | |
| FAO Multilateral evaluation of the 2003-05 Desert Locust campaign | 2006 | View | After action review, Management, Outbreaks, Report, Evaluation | English | Eastern Africa | Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations | |
| FAO-CRC Executive Secretary witnessed Eritrea’s commitment to control desert locust | 2019 | View | Agriculture, Early warning, Outbreaks | English | Eritrea | Commission for Controlling the Desert Locust in the Central Region, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations | |
| Field efficacy trials with the entomopathogen Metarhizium anisopliae var. acridum (Green Muscle) against the desert locust (Schistocerca gregaria) and monitoring of it's operational use | 2007 | View | Advice, Metarhizium acridum | English | Bahrain, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Jordan, Kuwait, Iraq, Lebanon, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Syria, United Arab Emirates, Yemen, Somalia | Commission for Controlling the Desert Locust in the Central Region, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations | |
| Global response plan January–December 2020 | 2020 | View | Emergency response, Outbreaks, Appeal | English | Iran, Yemen, Pakistan, Iraq, India, Ethiopia, Somalia, Kenya, South Sudan, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Tanzania, Uganda | Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations | |
| Greater Horn of Africa and Yemen Desert locust crisis appeal | 2020 | View | Appeal, Emergency appeal | English | Djibouti, Ethiopia, Somalia, Sudan, South Sudan, Tanzania, Yemen, Kenya, Uganda, Eritrea | Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations | |
| Guide for identifying desert locust | View | Locusts, Biology, General locust education | English | Bahrain, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Jordan, Kuwait, Iraq, Lebanon, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Syria, United Arab Emirates, Yemen, Somalia | Commission for Controlling the Desert Locust in the Central Region, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations | ||
| Guidelines for developing research proposals | View | Locusts, Research, Research proposal, Guide | English | Bahrain, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Jordan, Kuwait, Iraq, Lebanon, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Syria, United Arab Emirates, Yemen, Somalia | Commission for Controlling the Desert Locust in the Central Region, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations | ||
| Impact of desert locust infestation on household livelihoods and food security in Ethiopia | 2020 | View | Report, Outbreaks | English | Ethiopia | ||
| International appeals and reports on locust outbreaks in Madagascar | Bundle, Outbreaks, Appeal, Progress report | English | Madagascar | Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, United Nations | |||
| Locust Invasion in Ethiopia | 2021 | View | Survey, Livelihoods, Outbreaks | English | Ethiopia | Sydney Gourlay, John Ilukor | |
| Locust outbreak media coverage in Ethiopia | 2020 | View | Video, Outbreaks, Locust outbreaks, Media article, Food security | English | Ethiopia | France 24 | |
| Locusts have caused problems for quite some time | View | Locusts, Biology, Chemical control, Mechanical control, Spraying, Data analysis | English | Bahrain, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Jordan, Kuwait, Iraq, Lebanon, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Syria, United Arab Emirates, Yemen, Somalia | Commission for Controlling the Desert Locust in the Central Region, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations | ||
| Metarhizium anisopliae reference list of papers | View | Biological control, Infestations, Information hub | English | Bahrain, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Jordan, Kuwait, Iraq, Lebanon, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Syria, United Arab Emirates, Yemen, Somalia | Commission for Controlling the Desert Locust in the Central Region, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations | ||
| NOAA HYSPLIT Desert Locust Trajectory Model | 2020 | Forecasting, Migration, Swarm, Outbreaks, Monitoring, Modeling, Early warning | English | Eastern Africa | National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration | ||
| Operational-scale field trial with Green Muscle | 2005 | View | Agriculture, Chemical control, Metarhizium acridum, Trial, Biocontrol, Management | English | Bahrain, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Jordan, Kuwait, Iraq, Lebanon, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Syria, United Arab Emirates, Yemen, Somalia | Commission for Controlling the Desert Locust in the Central Region, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations | |
| Progress report on the response in the Greater Horn of Africa and Yemen | 2021 | Report, Advisory note, Forecasting, Monitoring, Locust outbreaks, Locusts, Outbreaks, Emergency response, Early warning, Livelihoods, Aerial control operations, Summary, Food security, Chemical control, Biological control, Community development, Collective movement, After action review, Agriculture, Crop health, Economics, Infographic, Advice, Public health, Pesticide management, Progress report, Set | English | Yemen, Somalia, Ethiopia, Kenya | United States Agency for International Development | ||
| Real-time evaluation of FAO's response to the desert locust upsurge 2020–2021 | 2022 | Management, Series | English | Eastern Africa | Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations | ||
| Regional appeal to contain the African Migratory Locust October 2020 | 2020 | View | Report, Outbreaks, Locust outbreaks, Locusts, Summary, Monitoring, Forecasting, Decision making, Management, Integrated pest management, After action review, Emergency appeal | English | Botswana, Eswatini, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe | Locust Pesticide Referee Group | |
| Results of the three-year programme in response to the locust plague in Madagascar 1 | 2016 | View | Video, Report, Set, Promotional video | English, French | Madagascar | Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations | |
| World Bank Procurement plan for Ethiopia 2020 2021 | 2012 | View | Management, Report | English | Ethiopia |
Highlighted media coverage
Projects
| Name | Acronym | Image | Status | Project leads | Related organization |
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| (B)eat the Locust project | Active | International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology | |||
| Drones for desert locust control in East Africa | 
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Active | Centre for Agriculture and Bioscience International | ||
| KUZI | 
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Suspected discontinued effort | Selina Wamucii | ||
| PlantVillage | 
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Suspected discontinued effort | David Hughes | Pennsylvania State University, Department of Entomology at Pennsylvania State University | |
| Project Locust | Active | ||||
| The Bug Picture | 
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Suspected discontinued effort | Laura Stanford |