Request for Proposal

Individual Consultant to design a website for the accelerating inclusive green growth through Agri-Based Digital Innovation Project (AGriDI) in West Africa.

Dr Jeremy Herren, icipe scientist and leader of the Centre’s SymbioVector Project, has been selected as one of ten winners of the Falling Walls 2021, in the Life Sciences category (Link: https://falling-walls.com/breakthroughyear/finalists-2021/).

icipe makes new discovery

The possibility of controlling malaria using a newly discovered microbe that blocks transmission of the disease from mosquitoes to people has moved closer to reality with advanced findings by the International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology (icipe).

Parthenium and its potential to increase malaria in East Africa

The International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology (icipe) has generated new evidence of the immense threat posed by a highly destructive invasive plant, known scientifically as Parthenium hysterophorus, towards probable escalation of malaria incidents in East Africa.

Over the recent past, a movement around the concept of Decolonising Knowledge has gained force across academic and international networks. The decolonial ideology is not new and in Africa, the philosophy was most prominent in the 1960s –1980s among postcolonial theorists, radical pan-Africanists and literary giants agitating for Decolonising the Mind, meaning liberation through endogenous, Africa-centred knowledge production.