FAO Desert Locust Information Service
The FAO has operated the Desert Locust Information Service (DLIS) since 1978 to monitor and inform locust affected countries and the global community. DLIS uses remote sensing to monitor environmental variables like weather, soil moisture, and vegetation in desert locust habitats and integrates that data with reports from the field. DLIS issues a monthly bulletin (English, French and Arabic) that summarizes the current locust situation and provides a six-week forecast for each affected country. During periods of increased locust activity, DLIS supplements its early warning system with updates and alerts for affected countries and helps mobilize emergency control campaigns. [1]
| FAO Desert Locust Information Service | |
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| Acronym: | DLIS |
| Website: | View URL |
| Geography | |
| Headquarter country: | Italy |
| Species purview: | Desert locust (Schistocerca gregaria) |
| Categories | |
| Type: | Intergovernmental Organization |
| Focus: | Development, Management, Education, Governance, Information Hub, Funding |
| Keywords: | Agricultural development, Community development, Control, Coordination, Emergency assistance, Forecasting, International development, Media, Monitoring, Policy, Regional cooperation, Sustainable development, Technology, Training, Early warning, Natural sciences |
Related organizations
The following organizations represented on HopperWiki are associated with this organization:
- Commission for Controlling the Desert Locust in the Central Region
- FAO Commission for Controlling the Desert Locust in Northwest Africa
- FAO Commission for Controlling the Desert Locust in South-West Asia
- FAO Commission for Controlling the Desert Locust in the Western Region
- FAO Desert Locust Control Committee
- FAO Desert Locust Control Organization for Eastern Africa
- FAO Locust Watch Locusts in Caucasus and Central Asia
- FAO Locusts and Transboundary Plant Pests and Diseases
- FAO Plant Production and Protection Division
- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Available resources authored by this organization
Resources
FAO Desert Locust Watch
Main hub of all FAO documents regarding the desert locust from preventative management, control protocol, meeting notes, technical reports, forecast reports, monthly bulletins, and more.
A Geographic Information System data explorer where you can access data on desert locust activity historically and at different time scales. Also data on soil moisture and vegetation maps.
FAO Locust response overview dashboard
Latest status of desert locust control operations of the current situation, donor response/funding situation, records of control and surveillance activities operations, filters by country, and funding period.
FAO Desert Locust Crisis Page (FAO Emergencies)
Summarises the FAO appeal to donors, media/blogs, partner lists, reports by numbers, document archives.
FAO Locust Emergency prepaRedness Toolkit (eLERT)
Brief summary: operational support to improve locust emergency response.
"The eLERT is a dynamic and interactive online database whose main objective is to serve as reference, at both national and international levels, to respond more timely and effectively to the needs in a fast-evolving crisis situation. It provides important information on critical aspects such as pesticides registered in the affected countries for locust control, technical specifications of recommended equipment, suppliers, standard contracts for aerial operators and consultants to reinforce the response capacities in the field, contact lists of important partners, rosters of consultants, etc. The eLERT should help people and agencies to act more effectively in coping with locust threats, thus preventing damage to the livelihoods of the rural population
FAO control manuals on the desert locust
FAO Desert Locust Guidelines - Latest edition (2001-2003)
FAO Desert Locust Master Trainer Manual
Brief summary from Desert Locust Master Trainer Manual: "These Guidelines are resource documents containing information on best practice for their [desert locust] detection, prediction and control. FAO encourages affected countries to disseminate this information as widely as possible to personnel involved with locusts so that it can be used to help make locust management safer and more efficient."
Locust Pesticide Referee Group (LPRG) reports to the FAO
Reports to the FAO by the Locust Pesticide Referee Group that presents information on pesticides including themes like:
- Risk to non-target organisms at verified dose rates
- Priority list of insecticides to be used against locusts
- List of studies on insecticide efficacy and environmental impact reviewed by the PRG
- Summary of data from environmental laboratory and semi-field toxicity studies
FAO eLocust3m videos
Description from YouTube: "How to register and use eLocust3m (BASIC and PRO versions), and see the data on PlantVillage. The eLocust3m app and data platform were developed by Penn State University's PlantVillage in collaboration with FAO. This, and eLocust3 (tablet), are the primary tools for locust teams to record and transmit ecology, locust and control data from the field in near/real-time to their national locust centre for planning operations and to FAO for forecasting. These data are the foundation of the global FAO Desert Locust early warning system and preventive control strategy used in all affected countries."
FAO eLocust3m Registration
FAO eLocust3mPRO Locust absent
FAO eLocust3mPRO Locust present
eLocust3mBASIC and Desert Locust biology
FAO eLocust3m PlantVillage data platform
FAO eL3mPRO Data processing
Collaborating Institutions
Contact Information
Website: http://www.fao.org/ag/LOCUSTS/en/activ/DLIS/index.html
www.fao.org/ag/locusts
FCC-EMPRES Information Sheets, FAO Desert Locust Information Service (DLIS) Helps countries to control Desert Locust PDF
E-mail: eclo@fao.org
Twitter: @FAOLocust
References
- ↑ FAO (2015) FCC-EMPRES Information Sheets, FAO Desert Locust Information Service (DLIS) Helps countries to control Desert Locust. http://www.fao.org/3/i4353e/i4353e.pdf