News and Events
icipe climate-smart push-pull benefitting farmers in East Africa
17 July 2015: A climate-smart version of the icipe push-pull technology is enabling farmers living in some of the East African regions most severely affected by climate change to stabilise their cereal–livestock mixed production systems.
Mosquito Terminators: A review published by icipe and University of Canterbury, New Zealand
10 July 2015: An extensive review undertaken by icipe and the University of Canterbury, New Zealand, on the only two spider species known to specifically target mosquitoes, Evarcha culicivora and Paracyrba wanlessi has been published in the current issue of the Journal of Arachnology.
Introducing Muhaka icipe: A new, bizzare wasp discovered in Kenya
Nairobi, Kenya, 2 July 2015: icipe taxonomists in collaboration with colleagues at the Smithsonian Institution, USA, have discovered a new, enigmatic wasp genus and species in Muhaka forest on the south coast of Kenya.
icipe Annual Report 2014
Nairobi, Kenya, 10 June 2015: icipe has published its Annual Report to present achievements in 2014, which was also Dr Segenet Kelemu’s first year as the Director General of the Centre.
Eating the desert locust reduces the risk of heart disease
Nairobi, Kenya, 21 May 2015: Eating the meat of the desert locust could be good for your heart, says a study conducted jointly by icipe, Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology and United States Department of Agriculture/Agricultural Research Service (USDA/ARS).