Up-scaling and adaptation of tsetse repellent technology for roll-out in Africa (within the Integrated Biological Control Applied Research Programme -- IBCARP)
IBCARP is an initiative aimed at supporting the adoption of proven icipe technologies and strategies for improved cereal, horticulture and livestock productivity by an estimated 350,000 additional farmers and pastoralists in Kenya, Ethiopia and Tanzania.
Through IBCARP, icipe will collaborate with private sector partners to scale-up the mass production and rollout of its innovative tsetse repellent collars technology. These efforts will be backed by a viable business plan for its commercialisation, packaging and wider dissemination.
The first step will be to secure the registration of the technology in IBCARP’s three target countries: Ethiopia, Kenya and Tanzania. icipe will rely on the support of government and commercial partners to achieve this goal.
The Centre will also integrate the use of the technology with other approaches, and in the development of effective barriers to stop flies from reinvading tsetse controlled areas.
In addition, the repellent collars technology will be evaluated for use in the control of vectors of human African trypanosomiasis (known more commonly as sleeping sickness).
Funding:
- European Union
- icipe core funds