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Displaying 15 of about 123 resultsThe main objective of the forum is to develop regional consensus climate outlook for the September to December 2011 rainfall season. It will also provide a regional interaction platform for the climate scientists and various users of climate early warning advisories. Further, the forum will review lessons / experiences from the use of the products provi…
In work published in Agronomy, the TMG Research gGmbH study team traced a highly destructive desert locust invasion in the Eastern Africa and Horn region between 2019-2021. Ethiopia and Kenya sprayed well over a million hectares of territory with damaging nerve agents malathion and chlorpyrifos, both from the organophosphate family of pesticides.…
A CABI-led study has developed the first forecasting models targeting the larval stages of fall armyworm – using near real-time earth observation data and pest occurrence within a farmer's field, the models will assist in the fight against the devastating fall armyworm (FAW) pest which in Africa alone is estimated to cause annual yield losses of US…
The UK Space Agency's International Partnership Programme (IPP) will be delivering a series of regional webinars, aimed at promoting our projects' capabilities and outcomes/impacts across climate change, agriculture, humanitarian, maritime, and disaster resilience.
Time
10:00 - 11:30 BST
Projects involved:
Regional and National Rice Production Forec…
Afghanistan National Disaster Management Authority (ANDMA)
Afghanistan is a landlocked country with an area of 652,864 sq Km (ref.syb 08-09). The climate is mostly dry with extremes of cold winters and hot summers. Nature’s destructive patterns routinely affect and wreak havoc in the country. Earthquakes are frequent in northern parts of the country an…
Wednesday 4 July - 14:30-16:00 CEST (UTC/GMT+2, Rome time)
Speakers
Peter Anaadumba, South-South Cooperation Officer in the Regional Office for Africa, FAO
Neil Marsland, Senior Technical Officer, FAO
More speakers to be announced soon
Click here to register to the webinar.
The fall armyworm (FAW), Spodopter…
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…
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…
In French:
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…
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…
In French:
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…
This report presents the institutional and legal framework for disaster risk reduction in Botswana, and describes its common disaster risks and natural hazards, such as drought and insect infestation. It outlines the strategies, plans, projects and activities related to disaster prevention and risk management.
The report provides an evaluation of Botsw…
By Antoaneta Roussi
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The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations has appealed for US$138 million in urgent funding — half to support affected communities and half to curb the locusts’ spread. At the same time, researchers say, better monitoring is needed to predict the insects’ movement and growth, and alternatives to syneth…
By Sara Hendery
Scientists from the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) in Niger say that 99 percent of the media and research coverage on the fall armyworm focuses on the invasive pest’s deadly threat to maize.
And deservedly so: The fall armyworm (Spodoptera frugiperda) is indeed a major problem…
The impact on the region's food supply could be enormous - a locust swarm of a square kilometre is able to eat the same amount of food in one day as 35,000 people
By Nita Bhalla
The United Nations is to test drones equipped with mapping sensors and atomizers to spray pesticides in parts of east Africa battling an invasion of desert locusts that are ra…