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icipe is inviting experienced communication consultancy firms to support the development of its flagship corporate communication products, including Spotlight – Stories of Transformation and Resilience and a series of legacy notes.
Firms with proven experience in research, writing, design and large-scale editorial projects are encouraged to apply by 21 April 2026 at 11:00 hrs EAT. Read more and access the full Terms of Reference here: https://shorturl.at/e4u6X

icipe and Partners Sign AICCRA-FSRP IV to Scale Climate-Smart Innovations🥳🎊🎉

What a wonderful vibe that March, the month of women, brought to icipe! ✨We celebrated the women in our institution and the millions of partnering women farmers👩‍🌾 Also we were honoured to welcome high level and distinguished visitors, and to participate in events around the world.Read more in the icipe Monthly Digest, Vol 2, Issue 2, March 2026
📩Download a copy: https://mailchi.mp/8007e2ef5326/july2025-10145356?e=812ddc3363

Bayero University Kano RUFORUM Network Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT Canada’s International Development – Global Affairs Canada AKADEMIYA2063 BioInnovate Africa Programme The Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm Conventions ILRI CIFOR-ICRAF AWARD Fellowships Mastercard Foundation Universiteit Gent

Digital advisory services for sustainable agrifood systems –connecting , and Practice. Are you interested? Then be sure to join us for this conversation grounded in our experience in the AgriPath initiative.
Learn more: https://www.agripath.net/symposium

Who should be part of this conversation? Tag a colleague working on digital agriculture.

Swiss Development & Cooperation GIZ,German International CooperationCDE - Centre for Development and Environment, University of Bern Université de Lausanne Grameen Foundation WOCAT - World Overview of Conservation Approaches and Technologies Kilimo Trust Bundesministerium für wirtschaftliche Zusammenarbeit und Entwicklung (BMZ) Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research Sida - Styrelsen för Internationellt Utvecklingssamarbete Ministry of Education - Kenya

Women are central to Africa’s agrifood systems, carrying knowledge, culture, innovation, and the resilience that sustains our communities. Despite the rich contribution, their contributions remain undervalued, and their access to land, finance, technologies, and decision-making remains limited.

This International Women’s Day, we are putting women farmers at the center of every discussion. Join us -ICRAF to learn, engage and get inspired!
📅 March 2, 2026
🕤 9:30 AM–12:00 PM
📍 CIFOR-ICRAF Campus, Nairobi
🎥 Join in person or online via YouTube
🔗 https://on.cgiar.org/4qI84Vx



AWARD Fellowships

We are absolutely delighted to receive news that Dr Dennis Beesigamukama, Postdoctoral Fellow at icipe, has been named a Laureate of the 2026 Anthropocene Award in the Emerging Academic category, awarded by the Hungarian University of Agriculture and Life Sciences (MATE).
Read more: https://en.uni-mate.hu/anthropocene-award

Dennis becomes one of the very first researchers to be selected for this distinction, which will be conferred at a Ceremony on 12 March 2026 in Gödöllő, Hungary.

A newly launched international recognition established by MATE, the Anthropocene Award recognizes academics whose work has achieved outstanding impact beyond academia. It takes its name from the Anthropocene – the era shaped by human activity, where environmental and social systems are deeply interconnected.

At icipe, Dennis’ research focuses on refining and diversifying frass fertilizer production technologies and understanding the impacts of insect-composted organic fertilizers on soil health and crop productivity in different agroecological zones.

Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research Gates Foundation BioInnovate Africa Programme Food Planet Prize Bundesministerium für wirtschaftliche Zusammenarbeit und Entwicklung (BMZ) GIZ,German International Cooperation Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) IKEA Foundation IDRC / CRDI Postcode Loterij Novo Nordisk Foundation Swiss Development & Cooperation French Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs Rockefeller Foundation Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office Sida - Styrelsen för Internationellt Utvecklingssamarbete Ministry of Education - Kenya

🏆🌍 Celebrating icipe's global recognition. We are honoured to announce that 12 scientists from icipe are on the World’s Top 2% Scientists Elsevier | Scopus list (2024), published by Stanford University in September 2025. Out of the 12, 11 scientists are recognised for single-year impact, while 3 are noted for career-long contributions in advancing research that addresses global and regional challenges.

Read more: https://elsevier.digitalcommonsdata.com/datasets/btchxktzyw/8

Single recent year impact: Sunday Ekesi; Menale Kassie; Chrysantus Tanga; Kibrom T. Sibhatu, Ph.D.; Zeyaur Rahman Khan (Emeritus Fellow); Tadele Tefera; Baldwyn Torto (Emeritus Fellow); Henri TONNANG (former staff); Thomas Dubois; Subramanian Sevgan; and Rosemary Sang

Career-long impact: Sunday Ekesi, Tadele Tefera, Daniel Masiga

ATPS Network Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT
International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT)
CGIAR Meridian Institute Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Universität Bern University of Cape Town Swiss Development & Cooperation Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research Københavns Universitet - University of Copenhagen
We Effect East Africa

August 2025 data-update for "Updated science-wide author databases of standardized citation indicators" Citation metrics are widely used and misused. We have created a publicly available database of top-cited scientists that provides standardized information on citations, h-index, co-authorship adjusted hm-index, citations to papers in different authorship positions and a composite indicator (c-score)...

🧠🐝 ICYMI: Episode 226 of Two Bees in a Podcast!

Our very own Dr. Nganso T. Beatrice, Research Scientist, Commercial Insects, joins Two Bees in a Podcast to discuss “Honey Bee Colony Losses in Sub-Saharan Africa.”

🎧 Listen to the full episode here: https://podcastaddict.com/two-bees-in-a-podcast/episode/216375017

French Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs Bundesministerium für wirtschaftliche Zusammenarbeit und Entwicklung (BMZ) GIZ,German International Cooperation Canada’s International Development – Global Affairs Canada SNF FNS SNSF Regjeringen (Norge) International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)
JRS Biodiversity Foundation Sida - Styrelsen för Internationellt Utvecklingssamarbete Swiss Development & Cooperation Ministry of Education - Kenya

Two Bees in a Podcast - Episode 226: Honey Bee Colony Losses in Sub-Saharan Africa with Dr. Beatrice Nganso Listen to Two Bees in a Podcast - Episode 226: Honey Bee Colony Losses in Sub-Saharan Africa with Dr. Beatrice Nganso by UF/IFAS Honey Bee Lab on Podcast Addict. In this episode of Two Bees in a Podcast, Amy Vu and Dr. Jamie Ellis are joined by Dr. Beatrice Nganso, a Research Scientist in commercial...

🌍🐝 Empowering Youth for Biodiversity Conservation Action in Cameroon!

, located in Central Africa, is one of Africa’s most biodiverse countries, yet it contributes less than 1% of species occurrence records to global biodiversity platforms such as iNaturalist.org and : The Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Through our project funded by the JRS Biodiversity Foundation (https://jrsbiodiversity.org/grants/icipe-2023/), we trained secondary school and university students to document local plants and insects using the iNaturalist mobile app.

✨ This initiative has already generated over 4,000 biodiversity observations and more than 1,000 species recorded - a major step toward closing Cameroon’s biodiversity documentation data gap.

This project was implemented by Dr. Beatrice Nganso from icipe in partnership with Prof. Sidonie Fameni from the university of Maroua and Dr. Geraud Tasse Taboue from the Institute of Agricultural Research for Development (IRAD) in Cameroon.

📲🌿 Together, we are turning youth curiosity into real conservation data!



Institut de recherche pour le développement (IRD)Biovision Africa Trust Cirad - La recherche agronomique pour le développement DAAD Wellcome Trust GIZ,German International Cooperation The END Fund Rockefeller Foundation CGIAR International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) Max Planck Society Ministry of Agriculture, Ethiopia, Universiteit Gent The PASET Regional Scholarship and Innovation Fund - Rsif

🌍🐝 Autonomiser les jeunes pour l’action en faveur de la conservation de la biodiversité au !

Le Cameroun, situé en Afrique centrale, est l’un des pays les plus riches en biodiversité en Afrique, mais il contribue à moins de 1 % des données d’occurrence d’espèces sur les plateformes mondiales de biodiversité en libre accès telles que iNaturalist.org et GBIF: The Global Biodiversity Information Facility

À travers notre projet financé par la JRS Biodiversity Foundation (https://jrsbiodiversity.org/grants/icipe-2023/), nous avons formé des élèves du secondaire et des étudiants universitaires à documenter les plantes et insectes locaux à l’aide de l’application mobile iNaturalist.

✨ Cette initiative a déjà permis de générer plus de 4 000 observations de biodiversité et d’enregistrer plus de 1 000 espèces — une avancée majeure pour réduire le déficit de données sur la documentation de la biodiversité au Cameroun.

Ce projet a été mis en œuvre par Dr Beatrice Nganso (icipe) en partenariat avec Prof. Sidonie Fameni (Université de Maroua) et Dr Geraud Tasse Taboue (Institut de Recherche Agricole pour le Développement – IRAD, Cameroun).

📲🌿 Ensemble, nous transformons la curiosité des jeunes en véritables données pour la conservation !

Sida - Styrelsen för Internationellt Utvecklingssamarbete Swiss Development & Cooperation Norad Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research Bundesministerium für wirtschaftliche Zusammenarbeit und Entwicklung (BMZ) GIZ,German International Cooperation IKEA Foundation European Union at the UN – New York Mastercard Foundation French Embassy in Kenya and Somalia Le développement international du Canada - Affaires mondiales Canada

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The icipe Monthly Digest, January 2026 issue, is out 🌿

Download a copy: https://mailchi.mp/071ffa7912d7/july2025-10144262?e=bc2e8b9847, to see how we spent the first 31 days of 2026.

Dipartimento di Scienze e Tecnologie Agro-Alimentari - Unibo Le développement international du Canada - Affaires mondiales Canada KALRO ReSAKSS Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research Mastercard Foundation IIRR Bees for Development PHE-Ethiopia Consortium Cirad - La recherche agronomique pour le développement Projet Facilité IG

Worming Our Way through December

The icipe monthly digest is out; https://mailchi.mp/dd68a5832907/july2025-10143316?e=bc2e8b9847

Before December wraps up, take a moment to catch up. This edition brings together the month’s key moments, what happened and why it mattered.

Easy to dip into, hard to skip. Download it, scan what you missed and close December fully in the loop.

Happy Holidays 🎄🎆

Sida - Styrelsen för Internationellt Utvecklingssamarbete Swiss Development & Cooperation Norad Australian Centre for International Agricultural ResearchBundesministerium für wirtschaftliche Zusammenarbeit und Entwicklung (BMZ) GIZ,German International Cooperation Ministry Of Education, Kenya IKEA FoundationEuropean Union at the UN – New York Mastercard Foundation Wellcome Trust French Embassy in Kenya and Somalia Le développement international du Canada - Affaires mondiales Canada Biovision FoundationInstitut de recherche pour le développement (IRD) CIRAD DAAD GIZ,German International Cooperation The END Fund Rockefeller FoundationCGIAR International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA)Wellcome Trust Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)Max Planck Society of Agriculture, Ethiopia, Universiteit Gent The PASET Regional Scholarship and Innovation Fund - Rsif WREN MEDIA PRODUCTIONS LIMITED Entomological Society of India Biovision Africa Trust

icipe Monthly Digest – Volume 1, Issue 12, December 2025 On 10 December 2025, we were most delighted to welcome Ruth Davis OBE (left), UK Special Representative for Nature, who reflected with us on the potential of an arthropod-based bioeconomy, and the leadership role of icipe. We gratefully acknowledge the presence of Jack Ogden, Private Office of the U...