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Senegal
Senegal
Senegal is within:
Region:	Africa
Subregion:	Sub-Saharan Africa
Intermediate region:	Western Africa

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
Directorate of Plant Protection	DPV	View	Government	Management, Research, Education	Senegal
Éléphant Vert		View	Private Sector	Management	Ivory Coast, France, Kenya, Mali, Morocco, Senegal
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...
Global Locust Initiative	GLI	View	University	Research, Education, Information Hub	United States, Senegal, Australia, China, Argentina, Bolivia, Paraguay, Uruguay, Mali
Ministère de l'Agriculture et de l'Equipent Rural à Direction de la Protection des Végétaux			Government		Senegal
Permanent Interstates Committee for Drought Control in the Sahel	CLISS	View	Intergovernmental Organization	Development, Regional Cooperation	Benin, Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, Ivory Coast, Gambia, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Senegal, Chad, Togo
Sahel Institute	INSAH	View	Intergovernmental Organization, University	Development, Governance, Research, Management, Information Hub	Benin, Ivory Coast, Gambia, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Mauritania, Senegal, Togo, Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger, Chad, Cape Verde

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
Community management of pest grasshoppers and locusts in Senegal	2020		Management, Species identification, Agriculturist guide, Set	Wolof, French, English	Senegal	Global Locust Initiative, United States Agency for International Development, Directorate of Plant Protection
Desert locust technical series			History, Management, Set	English, French, Arabic	Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Yemen, Mauritania, Madagascar, Morocco, Kazakhstan, Senegal, South Africa, Russia, Australia, Niger, Mali	Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Liste globale des pesticides autorisés par le Comité Sahélien des Pesticides	2020	View	Pesticides, Policy	French	Benin, Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, Ivory Coast, Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Senegal, Chad, Togo	Permanent Interstates Committee for Drought Control in the Sahel
Management of pest grasshoppers and locusts in Mali	2020		Management, Species identification, Agriculturist guide, Set	Wolof, French, Fulfuldé, Bambara, Songhaï	Senegal	Global Locust Initiative, United States Agency for International Development, Directorate of Plant Protection
NSF Coupled Natural Human Systems Living with Locusts project summary	2021		Summary, Set, Program, Project report	English, Spanish, French	Senegal, Australia, China, United States	Australian Plague Locust Commission, New South Wales Department of Primary Industries, Inner Mongolia Agriculture University, New South Wales Local Land Services, Directorate of Plant Protection, Cheikh Anta Diop University of Dakar, Chinese Academy of Sciences, University of Sydney
Pest grasshoppers and locusts in Senegal	2020		Management, Species identification, Agriculturist guide, Set	Wolof, French, English	Senegal	Global Locust Initiative, United States Agency for International Development, Directorate of Plant Protection
USAID Bay Sa Waar Communities for Sustainable Agriculture project summary	2021		Summary, Set, Project, Project report	English, Spanish, French	Senegal	United States Agency for International Development, The French Agricultural Research Centre for International Development, Global Locust Initiative, Gaston Berger University, Directorate of Plant Protection, United Nations AGRHYMET Regional Center, Le Centre National de Lutte Antiacridienne, National Desert Locust Control Center, National Network of Agriculture Chambers of Niger, Office de la Protection des Végétaux, The International Committee of the Red Cross, Mira Word Ries

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Projects

Name	Acronym	Image	Status	Project leads	Related organization
NSF Coupled Natural Human Systems Living with Locusts CNH	CNH		Completed	Arianne Cease, Jon Harrison, Brian Robinson, Mira Word Ries, Balanding Manneh, Ruth Farington, Marion Le Gall, Jennifer Learned	Australian Plague Locust Commission, New South Wales Department of Primary Industries, Inner Mongolia Agriculture University, New South Wales Local Land Services, Directorate of Plant Protection, Cheikh Anta Diop University of Dakar, Chinese Academy of Sciences, University of Sydney, National Science Foundation
USAID Bay Sa Waar Communities for Sustainable Agriculture	USAID		Completed	Clara Therville, Alana Burnham, Marion Le Gall, Mira Word Ries, Alioune Beye, Lucile Marescot, Arianne Cease, Cyril Piou, Mamour Touré	Directorate of Plant Protection, Gaston Berger University, Global Locust Initiative, Arizona State University, United States Agency for International Development

Projects

Numerous research projects looking at how land-use practices influence the Senegalese grasshopper (Oedaleus senegalensis) have built on each other over the years, creating a wealth of knowledge on this system and opportunities for alternative management strategies. Learn more about research on the Senegalese grasshopper in West Africa