Global Locust Initiative
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The Global Locust Initiative (GLI) is a non-profit at ASU that launched in 2018. The initiative welcomes individuals with interests in locusts and grasshoppers, transboundary pests, integrated pest management, landscape-level processes, food security, and/or cross-sectoral initiatives. GLI has two arms: (1) The GLI Network, which links stakeholders and experts from around the world to share ideas and forge collaborations, often through workshops and networking events with the goal of facilitating research and developing sustainable solutions for the global challenge of locust and grasshopper management, and (2) the GLI Laboratory, which hosts our ongoing projects ranging from locust physiology and ecology to community-based pest management and locust governance.
The GLI's mission is to promote interdisciplinary locust research and management to improve the well-being of farming communities and global food system sustainability. For more information visit our website
Global Locust Initiative Network
The purpose of the Global Locust Network is to connect stakeholders across interests to forge new partnerships that integrate and innovate locust research and management.
With over 200 members, the Global Locust Network has representatives from over 40 countries around the world who contribute expertise from integrated pest management, monitoring and forecasting, grasshopper and locust biology, landscape ecology, food security, social sciences, and beyond.
As of the beginning of 2021, the Network moved to an online private professional forum. This new platform allows members to connect directly with other research scientists, entrepreneurs, field technicians, non-profit professionals, students, professors, farmers, and officials from intergovernmental organizations.
This online community allows you to efficiently share events and opportunities, participate in discussions and make new connections for future collaborations.
The GLI Network hosts a private professional online community called HopperLink that allows members to connect directly with other research scientists, entrepreneurs, field technicians, non-profit professionals, students, professors, farmers, and officials from intergovernmental organizations.
Inside the online community, you can share research, events and opportunities, participate in discussions, and make new connections for future collaborations. It was created to connect locust and grasshopper researchers and practitioners around the world on a single platform. Join here.
View the members of the Global Locust Initiative Network
Global Locust Initiative
The Global Locust Initiative Lab is centered at Arizona State University and leverages state-of-the-art locust rearing facilities and laboratory space. In collaboration with a transdisciplinary team, members of GLI Lab conduct projects on multiple continents to study nutritional ecophysiology, land-use practices, and governance, with the goal of advancing both fundamental research and sustainable solutions to meet the challenge of locust and grasshopper outbreaks. Learn more about our projects
Directorship and staff
Current GLI Lab graduate students
Current GLI Lab undergraduate students
Global Locust Initiative Lab alumni
The Global Locust Initiative Lab at ASU has a large family of former staff, post-docs, students, and volunteers over the years.
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Available resources authored by this organization
| Name | Year published | Category | Author | Species purview | Geographic purview | Language |
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| Community management of pest grasshoppers and locusts in Senegal | 2020 | Guide, Reference works | Global Locust Initiative, United States Agency for International Development, Directorate of Plant Protection | Senegal | Wolof, French, English | |
| HopperLink | 2021 | Information hub, Reference works | Global Locust Initiative | Africa, Americas, Oceania, Asia, Europe | ||
| Locust identification in Niger | 2022 | Guide, Reference works | Global Locust Initiative, United States Agency for International Development, Directorate of Plant Protection, United Nations AGRHYMET Regional Center, Le Centre National de Lutte Antiacridienne, National Network of Agriculture Chambers of Niger | Niger | French, Zarma, Hausa | |
| Management of pest grasshoppers and locusts in Mali | 2020 | Guide, Reference works | Global Locust Initiative, United States Agency for International Development, Directorate of Plant Protection | Senegal | Wolof, French, Fulfuldé, Bambara, Songhaï | |
| Pest grasshoppers and locusts in Senegal | 2020 | Guide, Reference works | Global Locust Initiative, United States Agency for International Development, Directorate of Plant Protection | Senegal | Wolof, French, English | |
| South American locust NSF Grant for Rapid Response Research project summary | 2021 | Technical report, Interactive visual tools | The National Food Safety and Quality Service, Servicio Nacional de Sanidad Agropecuaria e Inocuidad Alimentaria, National Plant and Seed Health and Quality Service, Global Locust Initiative, Universidad Autónoma Gabriel René Moreno, Arizona State University | Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay, Bolivia, United States | English, Spanish, French | |
| Synthesis of the governance workshop on the South American Locust | 2021 | Technical report, Interactive visual tools | Foundation for Food & Agriculture Research, The National Food Safety and Quality Service, Global Locust Initiative, Clara Therville, John Anderies, Hector Medina, Rick Overson, Eduardo Trumper, Arianne Cease | Argentina, Bolivia, Paraguay, Uruguay, United States | English, Spanish | |
| USAID Bay Sa Waar Communities for Sustainable Agriculture project summary | 2021 | Technical report, Interactive visual tools | United States Agency for International Development, The French Agricultural Research Centre for International Development, Global Locust Initiative, Gaston Berger University, Directorate of Plant Protection, United Nations AGRHYMET Regional Center, Le Centre National de Lutte Antiacridienne, National Desert Locust Control Center, National Network of Agriculture Chambers of Niger, Office de la Protection des Végétaux, The International Committee of the Red Cross, Mira Word Ries | Senegal | English, Spanish, French |