| AAFC | Agriculture and Agrifood Canada |
| AELGA | Emergency locust and grasshopper programme (USAID) |
| AGRHYMET | Centre Régional de Formation et d'Application en Agrométéorologie et Hydrologie Opérationnelle pour les Pays du Sahel |
| AU | African Union |
| BCP | Biological Control Products (Pty) Ltd. |
| (F)CFA | Franc Communauté Financière Africaine CFA656 = €1 |
| CABI | CAB International |
| CILSS | Comité Inter-Etat pour la Lutte contre la Sécheresse au Sahel |
| CNPS | Centre National du Pastoral Social (Catholic organisation active in Mali) |
| DAX | Diabolocatantops axillaris (devil's grasshopper) |
| DFPV | Département de Formation en Protection des Végétaux (of AGRHYMET) |
| DMA | Dociostaurus marocannus (Moroccan locust) |
| DPV | Direction de Protection des Végétaux |
| EMPRES | Emergency Prevention System for transboundary animal and plant pests and diseases (FAO) |
| FAO | Food and Agriculture Organisation (of the United Nations) |
| GTZ | Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit |
| HDA | Hieroglyphus daganensis (rice grasshopper) |
| IAPSC | Inter-African Phytosanitary Council (of the AU) |
| IITA | International Institute of Tropical Agriculture |
| IITRI | Illinois Institute of Technology Research Institute |
| IPARC | International Pesticide Application Research Centre, Ascot, UK |
| IPM | Integrated Pest Management |
| KAN | Kraussaria angulifera |
| KAM | Kraussella amabile |
| JICA | Japanese International Cooperation Agency |
| mc | Moisture content |
| MA | Metarhizium anisopliae |
| MSU | Montana State University |
| N | Sample size |
| NARS | National Agricultural Research System |
| NSE | Nomadacris septemfasciata (red locust) |
| NGO | Non-Governmental Organisation |
| NS | Not significant |
| NTO | Non-target organism |
| OCLALAV | Organisation Commune pour la Lutte Antiacridienne et la Lutte Antiavaire |
| OSE | Oedaleus senegalensis (Senegalese grasshopper) |
| PPRI | Plant Protection Research Institute, Pretoria, South Africa |
| PRA | Participatory Rural Appraisal |
| RSA | Republic of South Africa |
| SD | Standard deviation |
| SECAMA | Secours Catholique du Mali |
| SGR | Schistocerca gregaria (desert locust) |
| USA | United States of America |
| ZVA | Zonocerus variegatus (variegated grasshopper) |
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