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<p>DFID provides approximately £17 million per annum in core funding to the United
Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), a strategic objective of which is
to “increase the resilience of livelihoods to threats and crises” such as locusts.
In 2018, UK core funding to the FAO supported the Desert Locust Information System,
which provides an early warning information system for countries including in the
Middle East and North Africa.</p><p>DFID also funds a range of programmes that work
to improve the monitoring of and response to pests more generally. These include the
Commonwealth Agricultural Bureaux International (CABI) Plantwise and Action on Invasives
programmes, the development and testing of biopesticides by the International Centre
of Insect Physiology and Ecology, and new work under development with the Bill and
Melinda Gates Foundation to strengthen pest and disease surveillance, forecasting
and the coordination and capacity of plant health organisations.</p>
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