Incidence and Ramifications of Armed Conflict in Countries with Major Desert Locust Breeding Areas

Despite many areas of progress in recent years, desert locust surveillance and control is impaired by obstacles, the most intractable which insecurity. Insecurity involves rebellions, insurgencies, civil international war, banditry, terrorism, minefields. Obstruction operations breeding ongoing armed conflict landmines constitutes “direct” “Indirect” insecurity, although less obvious, arguably more broadly deleterious debilitating government function diverting funds, personnel, equipment from management. Indirect “active” insecurity unrest that occurring at same time as a episode, but not areas. “inactive” refers to after-effects including weak funding because prior inattention capacity maintenance during times direct indirect active disabled or militarily-appropriated vehicles other resources, destruction infrastructure, deployment mines. We provide examples across 35 1986 through May 2020, 13 African Asian countries (Chad, Eritrea, Ethiopia, India, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Western Sahara, Yemen) with illustrate complexity, pervasiveness, chronic occurrence The upsurge 2020 used show how still contributes genesis expansion episodes. Possible mitigation effects on some discussed.