The situation is under control and closely followed by FAO and CLCPRO The National Center for Locust Control (CNLA) of Mauritania is continuing land operations of survey and control in the central and western central regions of the country on larval aggregates and fledglings....[more]

More than 70 million people in 15 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa depend on banana for their livelihood and food supply. Their food security is being threatened by the arrival and spread of two devastating banana diseases - Banana Bunchy Top Disease and Banana Xanthomonas Wilt....[more]

In cooperation with the Government of Ethiopia, FAO introduced a parastitic wasp to control a fast-spreading aphid pest infestation threatening to destroy cypress tree plantations in parts of North Western and South Western Ethiopia. The death of cypress trees was first...[more]

An international Red Locust emergency campaign in Eastern and Southern Africa has succeeded in containing a massive locust outbreak in Tanzania, FAO said today. It is the first time that biopesticides are being used on a large scale in Africa against locusts.

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New migratory plant pests are raising concerns about their potential impact on livelihoods, food security and global markets. EMPRES has started to address other invasive plant pests, adopting the successful Desert Locust management model to mitigate these other transboundary...[more]

Unusually heavy rains and flooding in eastern Yemen and southern Oman in late October could cause Desert Locusts to increase as ecological conditions are expected to remain favourable for several months.[more]

Surveys are currently underway in Desert Locust summer breeding areas in the Sahel of West Africa and Sudan as well as along the Indo-Pakistan border. Even though good rains have fallen this season, only low numbers of locusts have been found so far by national ground teams.

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