Commission for Controlling the Desert Locust in the Central Region (CRC-EMPRES)

• URL: http://www.crc-empres.org/
• Address: P.O. Box 2223
• City: Dokki-Cairo
• Country: Egypt
• Telephone: +20 233316000
• Fax: +20 237616804
• Email: Munir.Butrous@fao.org

The Desert Locust component of EMPRES was initiated in mid 1994. Its purpose was to strengthen the locust management capacity of locust-affected countries with the aim of minimizing the risk that Desert Locust plagues will develop. The commission groups 17 countries which collaborate in the development of improved preventive control strategies.