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 ISDR: The International Strategy for Disaster Reduction
Initiative created by the UN General Assembly to reduce the human, economic and social impact of natural disasters.
www.unisdrafrica.org
- Yokohama Strategy and Plan of Action,
Principles for the prevention of natural disasters adopted in May 1994.
www.unisdr.org
- Announcement of the World Conference on Disaster Reduction,
18-22 January 2005, Kobe, Hyogo, Japan.
www.unisdr.org | | International locust control organisations | | -
 FAO: UN Food and Agriculture Organisation
The FAO coordinates the management of the locust crisis by the UN.
www.fao.org
- Locust and Other Migratory Pests Group (FAO service)
Provides daily situation reports on the locust peril and maps showing the positions of spotted swarms.
www.fao.org
- EMPRES: Emergency Prevention System for Transboundary Animal and Plant Pests and Diseases (FAO programme)
This early warning system monitors and assesses the risks of locust invasions and other infestations.
www.fao.org
- Locustox Project (an FAO project)
The aim of this project is to study the environmental effects of chemicals used in agriculture.
www.fao.org
- ECLO: Emergency Centre for Locust Operations (an FAO centre)
Re-established in September by the director of the FAO to manage relations donor relations.
www.fao.org
- CLCPRO: FAO commission for controlling the desert locust in the Western Region
- FEWSNET: Famine Early Warning System Network
Monitors food security risks in African countries
www.fews.net | | Regional organisations | | -
 CILSS: Permanent inter-state committee for drought control in the Sahel
This committee involves nine Sahelian countries: Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, Chad, Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Mali, Mauritania, Niger and Senegal. Its mandate is to "invest in food security research and in drought and desertification control for a new ecological balance in the Sahel.
www.cilssnet.org
- DLCOEA: Desert Locust Control Organization for Eastern Africa
Founded in 1962, this institution involves Djibouti, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, Sudan, Tanzania, and Uganda, which are all members of the Inter-governmental Authority on Development (IGAD)
www.igad.dj
| | National organizations | | - CLAA: Locust control centre of Mauritania
www.claa.mr
- CIRAD: French Agricultural Research Centre for International Development
A French centre that conducts agricultural research for sustainable development in tropical and subtropical countries.
www.cirad.fr
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