Evaluation of FAO’s contributions to Sustainable Development Goal 2
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This review focuses on building national and regional capacities for preventive control of transboundary plant pests and diseases, with cursory reference to large emergency outbreak control operations, including the current desert locust crisis response in the Horn of Africa and Southwest Asia.
The rationale for focusing primarily on preventive control is the widely held view that the management of such threats is less costly and more cost-effective when tackled early on, when the threat is still small and manageable. National pest monitoring and control capacities, as well as regional and global collaboration, are key to success in a preventive, Early Warning Early Action (EWEA) approach to the management of transboundary pests and diseases.
The review underscores how the control of transboundary pests and diseases is as much a governance issue as a technical one. Regional solidarity often determines the pace of progress, while political tensions, regional rivalries and conflicts tend to hamper regional collaboration on the desert locust and other species. The role of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in this context is to support a fair, collaborative and technically competent architecture of regional commissions and national entities that trust and help one another. FAO must continue to forge this trust, but it cannot be a substitute for national authorities, which also have their role to play. From the perspective of leaving no one behind, pests and diseases remind us that we all share the same planet and that we must cooperate beyond borders in order to succeed.