Uruguay

Uruguay
Uruguay is within:
Region:	Americas
Subregion:	Latin America and the Caribbean
Intermediate region:	South America

Species gallery

• Highlighted species for Uruguay
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  Abracris flavolineata
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  Rhammatocerus pictus
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  Stenopola puncticeps
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  Orphulella punctata
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  South American locust (Schistocerca cancellata)
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  Tropical house cricket (Gryllodes sigillatus)
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  Soldier grasshopper (Chromacris speciosa)
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  Violet-winged grasshopper (Tropidacris collaris)

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
Comité de Sanidad Vegetal del Cono Sur	COSAVE	View	Non-governmental Organization	Education, Management, Governance, Information Hub	Uruguay
Comunidad Andina	CAN	View	Non-profit Organization	Information Hub, Governance	Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay, Uruguay, Peru
Global Locust Initiative	GLI	View	University	Research, Education, Information Hub	United States, Senegal, Australia, China, Argentina, Bolivia, Paraguay, Uruguay, Mali
Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture	IICA	View	Non-governmental Organization	Development	Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Costa Rica, Colombia, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Grenada, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, United States, Uruguay, Venezuela

Resources

Name	Species purview	Year published	Resource link	Descriptive keyword	Language	Geographic purview	Author
Acridomorph species of Argentina and Uruguay				Management, Biology, Species identification	English	Argentina, Uruguay	National University of La Plata
GICSV 2020 International Year of the Plant Health technical reports		2021		Biology, Distribution, Population dynamics, Set	English	Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay, Chile, Bolivia, Brazil	Inter-American Coordinating Group in Plant Protection
Seminario de Cooperación Regional Langosta Sudamericana: Estado de situación y cooperación		2020	View	Video, Regional cooperation, Outbreaks, Report	Spanish	Argentina, Bolivia, Uruguay, Brazil, Paraguay	The National Food Safety and Quality Service
Situation of locust and grasshopper plagues in South America December 2022		2022	View		Spanish	Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay	Comité de Sanidad Vegetal del Cono Sur, The National Food Safety and Quality Service, Servicio Nacional de Sanidad Agropecuaria e Inocuidad Alimentaria, National Plant and Seed Health and Quality Service, Servivio Nacional de Sanidad Agraria, National Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Fishery
South American Acridia management dashboard		2023	View	Management, Communication resource	Spanish	Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay, Bolivia	The National Food Safety and Quality Service
South American locust NSF Grant for Rapid Response Research project summary		2021		Summary, Set, Project, Project report	English, Spanish, French	Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay, Bolivia, United States	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
Synthesis of the governance workshop on the South American Locust		2021		Workshop, Summary, Governance, Set, Meeting, Project report	English, Spanish	Argentina, Bolivia, Paraguay, Uruguay, United States	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

Highlighted media coverage

Name	Author	Language	Species purview	Substance	Resource link	Year published
Outbreaks of locusts could threaten wheat and barley crops in Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay	Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations	English		News article	View	2020
Presentación del Sistema Regional de Alerta por langostas	The National Food Safety and Quality Service	Spanish		Video		2021

Projects

Name	Acronym	Image	Status	Project leads	Related organization
FFAR New Innovator in Food and Agriculture Research Award	FFAR		Completed	John Anderies, Clara Therville, Mira Word Ries, Rick Overson, Arianne Cease	Australian Plague Locust Commission, Directorate of Plant Protection, Gaston Berger University, Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture, The National Food Safety and Quality Service, Servicio Nacional de Sanidad Agropecuaria e Inocuidad Alimentaria, National Plant and Seed Health and Quality Service, New South Wales Department of Primary Industries, National Agricultural Technology Institute, Foundation for Food & Agriculture Research, Arizona State University
South American locust NSF Grant for RAPID Response Research	RAPID		Completed	Jon Harrison, Stav Talal, Sydney Millerwise, Rick Overson, Arianne Cease	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, Arizona State University, Universidad Autónoma Gabriel René Moreno, National Science Foundation