The Anti-Locust Research Centre (ALRC) was set up in London, United Kingdom, by the Colonial Office in 1945, with the aim of improving the worldwide forecasting and control of locusts.
Prior to that, Uvarov had been in charge of a small locust research unit in London, formed in the 1920s within the Imperial Bureau of Entomology.
[3] During World War II, the ALRC concentrated on its forecasting and advisory services with regard to anti-locust campaigns in the Middle East and Africa.
[2] In 1964, both the ALRC and the Imperial Bureau of Entomology became part of the Ministry of Overseas Development.
By 1990 they had been amalgamated with other organisations, been relocated to Chatham and became the Natural Resources Institute (NRI).