Pest Management Plan.

The Pest Management Plan (PMP) serves to guide and help monitor and mitigate negative environmental, health and social economic impacts arising from use of pesticides to control the current Desert Locust upsurge. Response to the desert locust crisis in Somalia aims to achieve three main goals: Control the desert locust’s population, through scaled up surveillance and monitoring, spraying of nymphs and hopper bands, and impact assessment, with local capacity building to carry out these operations safely and effectively; Protect livelihoods of food-insecure rural households at risk of locust invasion, by pre-positioning and delivering supplies, including back-up seed stock for immediate replanting, supplementary feed cubes for small milking animals and cash assistance where required; and Rebuild a modern and effective early warning and control system, which relied before the war on two centers in the northern regions.