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Algeria
Algeria
Algeria is within:
Region:	Africa
Subregion:	Northern Africa

Locust breeding grounds

Traditional breeding zones for desert locusts occur in southern Algeria, especially in the Ahaggar Mountains region, and numerous swarms extended north of the Atlas Mountains during both the 1986–1989 plague and the 2003–2005 upsurge.^[1]^[2]

Organizations

Locusts and grasshoppers are typically managed through a national plant protection system led by a country’s plant protection organization, ministry of agriculture, or equivalent biosecurity authority. They are often supported by specialized pest control branches, natural resource agencies, and regional bodies when outbreaks cross borders. These agencies are usually the first point of contact for surveillance, reporting, permits, quarantine decisions, and control operations. If the country belongs to one of the FAO locust commissions, those bodies provide a regional framework for early warning, field surveillance, information sharing, and coordinated response, helping countries align monitoring, contingency planning, and control actions across borders.

Organization name	Acronym	Website	Type	Focus	Geographic purview
Algerian Ministry Of Agriculture and Rural Development		View	Government	Management	Algeria
FAO Commission for Controlling the Desert Locust in Northwest Africa	CLCPANO	View	Intergovernmental Organization	Governance, Education, Management, Research	Algeria, Libya, Morocco, Tunisia, Mauritania
FAO Desert Locust Control Committee	DLCC	View	Intergovernmental Organization	Development, Management, Governance	Afghanistan, Algeria, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Central African Republic, Chad, Ivory Coast, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, India, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kenya, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, Netherlands, Niger, Oman, Pakistan, Portugal, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Spain, Sudan, Syria, Tanzania, Togo, Tunisia, Uganda, [[United Arab Em...
National Institute of Plant Protection of Algeria	INPV	View	Government	Governance, Management, Information Hub, Development	Algeria
Regional Department of Plant Protection of Adrar District at the National Institute of Plant Protection of Algeria			Government		Algeria

Resources

Name	Year published	Resource link	Descriptive keyword	Language	Geographic purview	Author
Atlas of desert locust breeding habitats	1997		Breeding zones, Habitat, Map, Distribution, Biology, Ecology, Behavior, Phase polyphenism	English	Ethiopia, Senegal, Sudan, Djibouti, Somalia, Algeria, Mauritania, Mali, Egypt, Eritrea, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Oman, United Arab Emirates	Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, George Basil Popov, G.B. Popov
Desert locust field handbook	2020	View	Species identification, Management	English	Israel, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Morocco, Algeria, Niger, Mauritania, Chad, Mali, Lebanon, Sudan, Afghanistan, Kuwait, Jordan, United Arab Emirates, Somalia, South Sudan, Pakistan, Ethiopia, Libya, Kenya, India, Oman, Bahrain, Djibouti, Yemen, Uganda, Egypt, Eritrea, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Palestine, Tanzania, Syria, Iran, Turkey	Centre for Agriculture and Bioscience International
Dociostaurus maroccanus Monograph	2023	View	Morphology, Distribution, Ecology, Population dynamics, Management, Identification	Russian	Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Algeria, Russia, Georgia (country), Afghanistan, Iraq, Azerbaijan, Italy	FAO Locust Watch in Caucasus and Central Asia, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Italian Locust Calliptamus italicus (Linnaeus, 1758) Morphology, Ecology, Distribution, Population Management	2022	View	Identification, Distribution, Ecology, Biology, Population dynamics, Behavior, Morphology	Russian	Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia (country), Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Afghanistan, China, Algeria, Italy, Spain, Portugal, France, Belgium, Germany, Greece, Bulgaria, Moldova, Romania, Serbia, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Slovenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Hungary, Belarus, Ukraine, Austria, Kosovo, Cyprus, Turkey, Pakistan	Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Michael Sergeev, Alexandre Latchininsky, M.K. Childebaev, I.A. Vankova, F.A. Gapparov, V.E. Kambulin, E.O. Kokanova, L.B. Pshenitsyna, I.I. Temreshev, M.E. Chernyakhovsky, N.N. Sobolev, V.V. Molodtsov

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References

↑ Showler AT, Lecoq M (2021) Incidence and ramifications of armed conflict in countries with major desert locust breeding areas. Agronomy 11(1): 114. https://doi.org/10.3390/agronomy11010114.
↑ Belayneh YT (2005) Acridid pest management in the developing world: a challenge to the rural population, a dilemma to the international community. Journal of Orthoptera Research 14(2): 187–195. https://doi.org/10.1665/1082-6467(2005)14[187:APMITD]2.0.CO;2

[Showler_and_Lecoq_2021-1] Showler AT, Lecoq M (2021) Incidence and ramifications of armed conflict in countries with major desert locust breeding areas. Agronomy 11(1): 114. https://doi.org/10.3390/agronomy11010114.

[Belayneh_2005-2] Belayneh YT (2005) Acridid pest management in the developing world: a challenge to the rural population, a dilemma to the international community. Journal of Orthoptera Research 14(2): 187–195. https://doi.org/10.1665/1082-6467(2005)14[187:APMITD]2.0.CO;2

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