Mauritania: Plan national de gestion de risque acridien (PGRA) 2011
The National Locust Risk Management Plan (PGRA) is made up of two components: the Locust Risk Prevention Plan (PPRA) and the National Locust Emergency Plan (PNUA).
The Locust Risk Prevention Plan (PPRA) aims to plan, organize, and coordinate national means, enabling the National Locust Control Unit (UNLA) to conduct preventive control with its usual national or international partners outside the crisis situation.
The PPRA is implemented at the level of a country and consists of organizing preventive control, which is defined as follows: “Preventive control of the Desert Locust consists of regularly monitoring seasonal breeding areas (gregarious areas), locating and to destroy, through occasional treatments on limited areas, the first populations which can lead to gregarization, and consequently, to the formation of hopper bands and swarms. This preventive fight against the Desert Locust is therefore based on three complementary but inseparable conditions: planning and permanent mobilization in countries hosting gregarious zones of well-trained and well-equipped national survey, early warning and rapid intervention systems and the recurring costs of which can be borne by the States; the coordination of prevention and control activities at the regional level by the CLCPRO; the centralization of information and analysis of the locust situation and, more generally, the coordination of locust risk management, at the level of FAO headquarters in Rome, Italy.
The objective of the National Anti-Locust Emergency Plan (PNUA) is to plan, organize and coordinate national or even supranational means to deal with a locust crisis situation when those of the PPRA prove insufficient. At the institutional level, the PNUA is managed by the National Locust Control Center (CNLA), created in July 2006 with the objective of monitoring and controlling the locust scourge throughout the national territory. As such, the CNLA is responsible for designing and implementing the preventive control strategy against the Desert Locust adopted by Mauritania as well as by the other countries of the Western Region of Africa as an effective and economical means of facing this insect that knows no borders. In its anticipatory approach, the CNLA organizes each year early surveillance and rapid intervention campaigns against the first outbreaks of the Desert Locust (CP) to prevent the triggering of the gregarization process (formation of swarms and hopper bands) where the CP is becoming very offensive and constitutes a serious threat to agropastoral resources and thus jeopardizing the country's food security.