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Is insects breeding economically convenient?
Recent studies suggest that the request of animal food will increase by 70-80% until 2050 (FAO 2013). Moreover climate change will have a negative impact in agriculture, livestock breeding and fishing. All this will bring a growing competition for natural resources which will become more and more limited in the next years. So it’s necessary a […]
AFFIA has its (italian) President
A short talk with Massimo Reverberi (Bugsolutely), recently elected as AFFIA President You were recently elected as AFFIA President. What are your priorities? There is a lot of work to be done. It is a new industry, and there is the need for recognition from government agencies (FDA, customs, Health Departments, Governments). Standards like the […]
Insects-oil as palm-oil substitute
Interview with Mushab Nursantio, co-founder of BiteBackInsect Tell us shortly about BiteBackInsect and how you get involved in the edible insects world Biteback was started in October 2015 as a student project for global competition “Thought For Food Challenge”. The idea came from my interest in entomphagy after reading the FAO report on edible insect […]
AgriProtein: 17,5 mln dollars injected in the insects-feed industry
A short talk with Jason Drew, AgriProtein founder AgriProtein has just received a 17.5 mln dollars financing. What’s this funding for? This is to roll out support centers to help our clients, build an additional wholly-owned site and to expand and improve the engineering and capacity at our existing site. You’re planning to expand in […]
Edible insects: are companies escaping from Italy?
It has been almost a year since our first interview with Marco Ceriani, founder of Italbugs. The Italian start-up is moving more and more towards foreign countries, so we wanted to understand more about that. In spite of your name, your company has been described as part of the brain-drain phenomenon, why? In Italy we […]
IPIFF: a task-force dedicated to insects as Novel Food
Interview with Antoine Hubert, Ceo of Ynsect and IPIFF President Tell us shortly about the vision you had and how that vision led to Ynsect Ynsect is an innovative company which is specialized in farming insects on a large scale and converting them into different compounds. These compounds, which are mainly proteins and lipids meet […]
Edible insects: a collective EU application is possible
I am just back from the conference: “The EU Novel Food Regulation and the Special Case of Insects” (Bangkok, October 26, 2016) and had the chance to learn the latest news from the EU commission experts in charge of reviewing the approval of insects as food in the EU. And I found out that: – ONCE […]
