Provisional Agenda 
 

Opening

1.   Opening of the Meeting

2.   Election of Chairman, Vice-Chairman & Drafting Committee

3.   Adoption of the Agenda

Session 1: National 2024 locust campaigns and forecasts for 2025

4.   National locust campaigns in 2024, forecasts for 2025 and preparation of the next campaigns

Session 2: Programme implementation and capacity strengthening in 2024

5.  Overview on Programme implementation in 2024  

6.  Regional cooperation: 

6.1 Cross-border and egg-bed surveys

6.2 Country-to-country visits: visit of Kyrgyz Experts to the Laboratory for Quarantine and Plant Protection, Uzbekistan

7.  National capacities’ development in 2024

7.1 National training sessions or briefing sessions on locust management

7.2 Update on background literature on locust pests in CCA (monthly bulletins, practical guidelines, leaflets, posters, monographs...)

7.3 Equipment delivered in 2024 to strengthen operational capacities

8.  Development of a national locust contingency plan – pilot activity in Tajikistan

Session 3: Developing monitoring and analyzing systems

9. ASDC and CCALM In-depth introduction to Kazakhstan

10.  Developments of ASDC in 2024 (situation update, issues encountered, lessons learnt and recommendations) and next steps for 2025

11. Developments of CCALM in 2024 (progress made, issues encountered, lessons learnt and recommendations) and next steps for 2025

12. New Human Health and Environmental Monitoring (HH&Env) Form in ASDC

Session 4: Towards the use of more efficient control methods and biopesticides in CCA

13.  National demonstrations/trials on biopesticides

14. Summary and review of results of the biopesticides demonstrations

15. Sharing the Chinese experience in biopesticides and new technologies

16. Use of drones in locust control

Session 5: Risk reduction for human health and the environment

17.  Monitoring impact of locust control operations, including the work of the Human Health and Environment Monitoring (HH&Env) Teams

18. Further testing/use of the Locust Pesticide Management System (Locust-PMS) – pilot activity in Georgia

Session 6: Locust Programme in CCA: what is next?

19. Programme of work during 2025

20. Sharing the experience of the FAO Desert Locust Commission in West and North-West Africa

21. Defining the priorities for the future

Closing

22.  Any other business

 Incl. updates on locusts in other geographical areas

Drafting Committee (preparation of the bilingual report)

23.  Adoption of the draft report

24.  Closure