Prof. Baldwyn Torto, a principal scientist and head of the icipe Behavioural and Chemical Ecology Unit (BCEU), is among 10 new Fellows elected by the Governing Board of the Entomological Society of America (ESA)* in 2016.

July 2016: icipe’s research towards increasing agricultural productivity in Africa has been featured on BBC World News, Horizons programme, in an episode titled ‘Healthy Harvests’ (Link: http://www.bbc.com/specialfeatures/horizonsbusiness/seriessix/healthy-harvests/?vid=p0400hrw)

31 May 2016, Tel Aviv, Israel – icipe Director General, Dr Segenet Kelemu, has received an honorary doctorate from Tel Aviv University (TAU), Israel's largest and most comprehensive institution of higher learning, and one of the top 100 universities internationally.

9 – 13 May 2016, Praque, Czech Republic –  icipe’s research on the use of satellite data to map the severity of maize lethal necrosis (MLN) in Kenya earned significant recognition at the 2016 European Space Agency (ESA) Living Planet Symposium.

Professor Robert R. Jackson, a visiting scientist at icipe and a Professor of Animal Behaviour at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand, has been honoured in  a Festschrift (a collection of writings celebrating the accomplishments of a scholar) published recently by the New Zealand Journal of Zoology.