Animal Health
Pests and diseases in livestock continue to hold back development in large parts of Africa. icipe supports the prime role of domestic animals by developing and promoting appropriate, environmentally friendly and intelligent technologies for the sustainable management of disease vectors, such as tsetse flies. icipe is also one of the few organisations conducting research into the control of ticks and tick borne diseases. In this area, icipe is incorporating indigenous knowledge to develop integrated stragegies which rely on biological control, use of botanicals and behavioural modification of the cues ticks use to find hosts and mates.
Read more about this topic: International Centre Of Insect Physiology And Ecology
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