Provisional Agenda

Opening
1. Introduction
2. Election of the Chair, Vice-Chair and Drafting Committee
3. Adoption of the agenda
 
Session 1: Development of locust monitoring and analysis systems in 2019  and recommendations for 2020
4. Locust monitoring: what are we doing wrong and what needs to be changed? (open discussion in the
format of  "Round Table", moderator - A. Latchininsky)
5. Use of the Automated System for Data Collection (ASDC) in the 2019 locust campaigns (country
presentations) 
6. ASDC changes in 2019 and next steps in 2020 (working paper)
7. Use of the Caucasus and Central Asia Locust Management System (CCALM) in the 2019 locust
campaigns (country presentations)
8. CCALM changes in 2019 and next steps in 2020 (working paper)
9. Improving CCALM data analysis at the national level (working paper)
 
Session 2: Locust forecast using CCALM
10. Experience of short, medium and long-term forecast of locust situation in CCA countries (country presentations)
11. International experience in forecasting locust outbreaks (presentation – A. Latchininsky)
12. CCALM parameters for locust forecast in CCA countries (working paper)
 
Session 3: Locust reporting: how to make it standardized and informative?
13. Reporting options - what data to collect? (working paper)
14. National bulletins - how to optimize them? (working paper)
 
Closing
15. Adoption of the report and recommendations
16. Closing remarks
 
 
All working papers will be available on the FAO "Locust Watch CCA website" at:

http://www.fao.org/ag/locusts-CCA/en/index.html