One major recommendation from the meeting was that NMHSs need to strengthen their collaboration with the National
Locust Control Centres (LCCs) and provide near real-time daily rainfall and temperature observations and forecasts at
a centralized location to provide easy access for the LCCs, regional organizations and international agencies such as FAO.
With this recommendation in mind, the capability of countries to upload daily weather data from April to October 2005 was developed on this web page. The data will be processed into a password
protected web page for the National LCCs, FAO, and other regional and national institutions to access and use these data in their locust control applications.
Locust Related Web Sites
- WMO/FAO Regional Workshop for the Anglophone Countries on Meteorological Information for Locust Monitoring and Control
held in Muscat, Oman from 8-12 April 2006.
- WMO/FAO Regional Workshop for the Francophone Countries on Meteorological Information for Locust Monitoring and Control
held in Niamey, Niger from 19-22 April 2005.
- WMO Expert Meeting on Meteorological Information for Locust Control
held in Geneva, Switzerland from 18-20 October 2004.
- FAO Desert Locust Information Service
This FAO website contains the latest information on the desert locust in Africa and Southwest Asia, including the Desert Locust Bulletin in English, French, and Arabic. This site
also has an extensive list of links on locust biology, centres, equipment, national weather services and weather information, and locust tools.
- IBIMET Desert Locust Meteorological Monitoring
The Italian Institute of Biometeorology (IBIMET) in collaboration with FAO/EMPRES have developed a pilot meteorological information service for Mauritania and Senegal to support Desert Locust control operations.
- Daily Rainfall and 5-Day Accumulation Estimates for Mauritania
and Senegal from Meteosat Second Generation - MSG (3x3 Km).
- Mauritanian Desert Locust Centre (Centre de Lutte Antiacridienne, CLAA)
A Mauritanian government agency dedicated to the control of the desert locust. It operates under the direction of the Agriculture Department of the Ministry for Rural Development and the Environment.
- Pakistan Locust Division
The Department of Plant Protection of the Government of Pakistan provides information on locusts.
- Algerian National Institute of Plant Protection (French only)
- Moroccan Desert Locust Web site (French only)
Relevant CAgM Reports on Locusts
