Welcome to icipe, August 2016

icipe

• African based research Centre utilizing insect science to promote health and food security.

• Main offices in Kenya and Ethiopia, with projects active across Africa.

• 5 main pillars; Animal, Environmental, Human and Plant Health as well as Capacity development.

• Portfolio covers basic research through to on the ground community engagement.

• Science to benefit Africans

Animal Health

• Tsetse flies are the vectors of the trypanosomes parasite that cost Africa Costs to the African economy US$4.5 billion annually.

• Member of the tsetse fly genome sequencing consortium

• Color recognition and chemosensory receptors

• Identified chemicals that repel tsetse from waterbucks and utilized the result to develop cattle collars that repel tsetse.

• Developed traps for tsetse flies

• Currently working with NARS in Ethiopia, Kenya and Somaliland to establish tsetse fly exclusion zones.

Environmental Health

• Embedded across portfolio; replace or refine the use of chemicals to control insect pests.

• Biodiversity; the discovery of 13 new wasp species reported last year.

• Pollination services; 70% of crops rely on pollination services and not all pollinators are equal.

• Bee Health

• Mapping the presence and diversity of bee pathogens

• Breeding for disease resistant bees• Identifying cell receptors for viral pathogens• Developing plant based products for the

control of insect pests.• Creating and supporting a network of bee

health labs across Africa.

Environmental Health

• Commercial Insects; insects for sustainable communities

• Establish honey and silk market chains• Organic certification• Market places

• New initiative in Ethiopia to train and equip 12,500 unemployed youth as entrepreneurs in honey and silk.

• 2450 modern hives distributed in Ethiopia alone since 2011, equating to an income from honey sales in 2015 of USD 588,000

Human Health• Major focus on insect vectored diseases.

• Malaria remains a major threat to the health of Africans

• A child still dies every 80 seconds

• Greater than 50% reduction in malaria deaths in Africa since 2003.

• Insecticide treated nets

• In door residual spraying

• Rate of reduction is beginning to plateau and insects are adapting

• Feeding outside

• Insecticide resistance

New tools are needed to underpin control and move to eradication

• New control strategies

• Develop outdoor monitoring and control tools;

• Study and target non-host seeking physiological stages;

• Develop integrated vector management strategies

• Current activities

• Attractant for gravid females

• The role of plant feeding in vector maintenance and as attractants

• Outside traps: powered by solar panels

• Bio-larvicides

• Integrated Vector Management

Plant Health

• Biopesticdes; natural predators and entopathogenic fungi

• IPM strategies for a range of major crop pests• Commercialized and registered in a number of

East African countries and growing by private partner; Real IPM

• Future plans for EU, US and Asia.

• Push-Pull; integrated cropping strategy to address striga and stem borer

• Also benefits soil health, nutrient and water availability.

• >122,000 farmers adopted to date and established ppp to rapidly escalate this number.

• Complex network of plant-plant and plant-insect signaling that is being unraveled.

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Attract moths

Trap Crop

Main Crop

Capacity Development

• Capacity development for farmers, extension agents, health workers, partners, NARS and the next generation of African Scientists.

• In a year icipe:

• 177 MSc and PhD students as well as post docs from 18 African and 6 non-African countries (2015); 45% women

• Holds more than 50 training workshops

• Over 1000 field days

OUR CONTACTS

International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology (icipe)

P.O. Box 30772-00100, Nairobi, KenyaTel: +254 (20) 8632000Fax: +254 (20) 8632001/8632002E-mail: icipe@icipe.orgWebsite: www.icipe.org

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