icipe's mission is to help alleviate poverty, ensure food security and improve the overall health status of peoples of the tropics by developing and extending management tools and strategies for harmful and useful arthropods, while preserving the natural resource base through research and capacity building.

Dr. Clifford Mutero, who works with ICIPE and the University of Pretoria on a GEF / UNEP/ World Health Organization (WHO)-AFRO project, explains how growing dry-land crops m...

Call For Applications For 3-year Doctoral Training In Insect Sciences (2013) icipe - African Insect Science for Food and Health in partnership with African University partne...

The aim of this workshop is to show the possibilities of using remote sensing (RS) variables in species diversity modeling in order to refine and improve the model predictions. A...
In March 2013 icipe’s DG Christian Borgemeister was invited to Taiwan by AVRDC, the World Vegetable Centre headquartered in Shanhua, Taiwan. Download and Read his trip report i...

Over two-thirds of the population in the developing world are small-scale farmers, many of whom are dependent on livestock for their everyday survival. Improvement of livestock...

Human health research focuses on anopheline mosquitoes, which transmit the malaria parasites. Malaria is the tropics' most serious infectious disease, affecting more than 500 milli...

Plant health research is icipe's oldest and also its largest research agenda. It has the goal of contributing to improved sustainable food security and environmental health th...
Introduction The major objective of icipe’s Capacity Building and Institutional Development Programme is to build human resource capacity in insect science and related areas of ...
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Addis T., Vollrath F., Raina S.K., Kabaru J.M. and Onyari J. (2012) Study on microstructures of African wild silk cocoon shells and fibers. International Journal of Biological Ma...
Addis T., Raina S.K., Vollrath F., Kabaru J.M., Onyari J. and Nguku E.K. (2011) Study on weight loss and moisture regain of silk cocoon shells and degummed fibers from African wi...
Adamski D., Copeland R.S., Miller S.E., Hebert P.D.N., Darrow K. and Luke Q. (2010) A review of African Blastobasinae (Lepidoptera: Gelechioidea: Coleophoridae), with new taxa re...
Amudavi D.M., Khan Z.R., Wanyama J., Midega C.A.O., Pittchar J., Hassanali A. and Pickett J.A. (2009) Evaluation of farmers' field days as a dissemination tool for push–pull te...
Showcasing Photos of icipe's Journey icipe's Official Opening 20th Anniversary General Historical Photo Gallery ...
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icipe's 20th Anniversary Celebration photo gallery. {gallery}icipe/about_us/historical/20th_anniversary/{/gallery}...
General historical photos about icipe. {gallery}icipe/about_us/historical/general/{/gallery}...