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Displaying 15 of about 96 resultsThis opinion piece is derived from presentations and discussions held during a webinar on “Transboundary Disease and Pest Management” (March 3, 2021), as a part of the International Year of Plant Health (IYPH) webinar series organized by the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR). Globalization and changing climates are aggrav…
Pakistan is within the desert locust’s recession distribution, but effects of desert locust activity there have not, until this report, been detailed in the scientific literature. The purpose of this article is to describe the chronology, responses to, and impacts of the recent desert locust episode in Pakistan, including risks to food security and poss…
This paper presents a framework for reducing wildfire risk at its actual landscape scale. The framework is based on a scientific breakthrough: a new planning tool that gives the wildland fire community the ability to manage fire risk across broad landscapes. Working together through shared stewardship, stakeholders can make cross-boundary investments to…
Desert locust invasions affect an area extended from the Atlantic Coast of Northern Africa to eastern India. Plagues arise, however, in the arid and semiarid recession core region. Desert locust breeding and migration are synchronized with rainy seasons, a fact that has made possible since 1938 the elaboration of a strategy for the control of their greg…
This report was commissioned by the APLC to complement the previous analysis by estimating the net benefit of control taking into account the possibility that a second generation of locust may develop in the absence of APLC operations.
In this analysis, all likely outcomes are considered assuming that the APLC did not exist and therefore no control ope…
The fall armyworm, Spodoptera frugiperda, a moth originating from tropical and subtropical America, has recently become a serious pest of cereals in sub-Saharan Africa. Biological control offers an economically and environmentally safer alternative to synthetic insecticides that are being used for the management of this pest. Consequently, various biolo…
Le Plan national de gestion de risque acridien (PGRA) est constitué de deux composantes : le Plan de prévention du risque acridien (PPRA) et le Plan national d’urgence antiacridienne (PNUA).
Le Plan de prévention du risque acridien (PPRA) a pour objet de planifier, organiser et coordonner les moyens nationaux permettant à l’Unité nationale de lut…
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Le plan ORSEC est un plan cadre gouvernemental, permettant d’organiser la réponse en cas de catastrophe de grande ampleur qui dépasse les moyens habituellement misent en place pour y répondre. Il permet d’appuyer le leadership du gouvernement sur l’organisation de cette réponse en clarifiant les rôles et responsabilités de chacun mais auss…
Insect pests damage millions of hectares of forest worldwide each year. Moreover, the extent of such damage is increasing as international trade grows, facilitating the spread of insect pests, and as the impacts of climate change become more evident. Classical biological control is a well-tried, cost-effective approach to the management of invasive fore…
This plan is a sectoral policy document, jointly issued by the National Development and Reform Commission and the Ministry of Agriculture in order to improve the capacity of grassland disaster prevention and mitigation, maintain the security of grassland ecology, and promote the sustainable and healthy development of society and the economy in pastoral…
This document presents disaster risks of China and major work on disaster reduction that has been done in the field of constructions and engineering, including monitoring and forecasting systems, disaster management and governance, and coordination and international cooperation. It describes main guiding policies, objectives, tasks and measurements of d…
The intention of this map is to give a quick overview for decision makers on supra-regional or national level about the risk exposure of the population to seismic hazards and landslide susceptibility. The classification used here runs from yellow (few people exposed) to red (many people exposed). The class width of the yellow-to-red division has been ch…
The objective of the Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) for Desert Locust Control is to give concise instructions for good insecticide application against the Desert Locust. These instructions are intended for use by the field staff who are involved in Desert Locust operations (including Locust Officers and technicians) in order to help them to avoid d…
This is the third edition of the Suffering in Silence report. The aim of this report is to highlight those humanitarian crises in 2018 that, though large, have received little public attention. In the final section, it also addresses the question of how to ensure better coverage, outlining eight steps to help shine a light on forgotten crises.
Using th…
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Ce document présente les réalisations de l’approche de la Direction Générale de la Protection Civile (DGPC) Malienne en matière de gestion des urgences et catastrophes en 2012, 3 années après la mise en œuvre du projet PRECARICA viant à renforcer les capacités de la DGPC, des structures étatiques et des collectivités locales à mieux préven…