Seeking to use insect science for sustainable development, icipe looks to ensure food security and improve the overall health of communities by addressing the interlinked problems of poverty, poor health, low agricultural productivity and environmental degradation.
The centre is committed to developing and disseminating environmentally safe, affordable, acceptable and accessible tools and strategies to control insect pests and disease vectors and enable sustainable conservation and utilisation of Africa’s rich biodiversity. As the only international institution in Africa working primarily on arthropods, capacity building of individual researchers and institutions is an integral part of icipe’s research and development activities.
ACIAR has a strategic partnership with icipe that provides broad support to the centre's research activities and capacity-building in low and lower-middle-income countries. Key objectives of the partnership include:
ACIAR also invests and collaborates with icipe in other research initiatives to further the uptake and impact of insect technology. These include:
Learn more about icipe and its research via its website.
A world-leading insect research centre in Kenya will receive ongoing annual funding from ACIAR through a new core funding agreement.
ACIAR is partnering with AgriFutures Australia and the International Centre for Insect Physiology and Ecology (icipe) to create a new centre for knowledge on insect production for livestock feed and other uses.
Women and youth agripreneurs in Kenya are finding a newer, cheaper and environmentally clean way of producing much-needed protein for livestock and fish feed.
