The Agreement for the establishment of the Commission was approved by the Council at its 44th Session (1965) under the authority of the Conference (Eleventh Session, 1961) and on the recommendation of a Special Conference held in Beirut (1965). The Agreement came into force on 21 February 1967. The 20th Session of the Commission, held in Cairo from ...

The 30th Session and the 34th Executive Committee Meeting of the Commission for Controlling the Desert Locust in the Central Region, was held in Muscat, Oman 20-24 February 2017. ...

As per the Establishment Article, the function of the Commission in the Central Region is to plan and promote research and training at national, regional and international levels, also actions relating to survey and control of the Desert Locust to ensure preventive control strategy against Desert Locust infestations that might damage agricultural c ...

The Desert Locust Information Offices in the front-line-countries; Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Sudan and Yemen receive and analyze Desert Locust and ecology information and hence disseminate it to the concerned staff to undertake their survey/control operations and other actions. Geographic Information System (RAMSES) and eLocustv ...

All frontline countries have taken essential steps in the preparedness for the winter / spring breeding seasons to various degrees and depending on the available resources of each country. Also survey and control work plans were activated and teams took their positions in the winter breeding areas and are conducting survey consistently, reports on ...

Prevention preparedness for a possible but unlikely emergency situation and rapidly react in possible outbreak and upsurge situations in the most appropriate and rational manner. The other objectives of Contingency Planning are: - enhance early preparedness between front line member countries, - Preparedness arrangements, considered potential emerg ...

Strengthen the control capacity of the member countries and build up self-reliant and sustainable national training structures. The Commission continue to support short, medium and long term trainings courses at the national and regional level either organized or supported or conducted by the Commission or the member countries ...

The environmental and health standards (EHS) defines the requirements that a Desert Locust control campaign should meet with the aim to minimize environmental and human health effects of insecticide use. ...

In order to assist the CRC countries in managing, recording and monitoring pesticide stocks more efficiently, help reducing the creation of obsolete pesticides and enable countries to plan strategies for responding more effectively to Desert Locust outbreaks. Furthermore, the need for the implementation of an efficient Pesticides Stock Management S ...

The FAO Desert Locust Commissions is supporting the availability of potential use of drones for Desert Locust (DL) monitoring, within the context of Desert Locust early warning and preventive control systems. The use of drones could be a potential means to improve locust monitoring, early warning, rapid control and reduce inspection and prevention ...

The Commission for Controlling the Desert Locust in the Central Region participated in the commemorating celebrating 40 years of country representations in the Near East and North Africa region. The Near East and North Africa region hosted the first ever FAO regional office in Egypt. Forty years after the first country Representation offices opened ...

The Commission is providing and supporting the member countries with the necessary references and information regarding Desert Locust, and also with all research results and documentations (available on the Commission website www.desertlocust-crc.org). This resulted in numerous publications and references, in English and Arabic, produced by the Com ...