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MIXA will present cricket powder at East African Trade Fair in Burundi

Charles Odira from MIXA Food and Beverages, Kisumu, Kenya will be present at this East African Community Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises Trade Fair (formally known as the EAC Jua Kali Nguvu Kazi Exhibition) in Bujumbura, Burundi from 7-17 December 2023 and will exhibit cricket powder and cricket bread. MIXA is partner from Flying Food since 2015…
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Movie Flying Food Kenya and Uganda

Watch this movie to see how cricket farming and processing looks like in Kenya and Uganda and hear the enthusiastic stories of our trainers and entrepreneurs! A 3 min movie on YouTube Flying Food Consortium | TNO – YouTube
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Flying Food takes next step in protein transition with crickets in Africa

8 years ago the Flying Food consortium introduced crickets for human food in Kenya and Uganda. At the moment still 100 farms are rearing crickets and the market demand for cricket powder is now outpacing supply. Powder is used to fortify bread, porridge and cookies. Time to scale up; we aim for starting up large…
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Webinar Flying Food 10 July 2023

With the aim of mutual learning and recruitment of business partners, I like to invite you to our online Webinar Flying Food – 10 July at 14.00 – 15.00 CET 2023 Here we focus on the advantage of crickets for food,  the attractive business model for small and medium entrepreneurs and our scaling strategy to…
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Scaling Flying Food – Invitation for Meet & Greet

At the moment, the demand for cricket powder outpaces supply in Africa. Time to scale up! With the purpose to upscale Flying Food to 5 African countries and to identify investor and business partners we invite you for a Meet & Greet on 26 June 2023.   Webinar Flying Food 1. For social impact investors…
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18 April 2023 – Event on Edible Insects at African Leadership University Rwanda

The African Leadership University from Rwanda organizes the Edible Insect for Food Conservation Event championed by five Global Challenges students on the 18th of April 2023 from 1 pm to 3:30 pm at the Leadership Center of the African Leadership University, Bumbogo, Kigali Innovation City, Next to Azam. You can also join online. This event…
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Crickets in Uganda

From 17 -22 January Mathilde Miedema from TNO and Marian Peters from NGN visited Uganda to facilitate the cricket value chain. 76% farmers are still rearing crickets in Uganda after starting up in 2016-2018. They are trained during the Flying Food project by TNO, Kreca, NGN and our local trainer Esther Amoding and coordinated by microfinance…
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Esther Amoding – Trainer Uganda

Esther Amoding is our certified trainer – she trains farmers in rearing crickets and she is trainer-of-trainers in cricket farming. She is educated by Flying Food in 2015-2018. She is based in Masaka, Uganda and has her own demonstration farm. She can train people at her venue or she can travel to your farm/ office.…
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Join our webinar on 25 October 2022

Interested in the cricket business for food applications? With the aim of mutual learning and inspiration, I like to invite you to our online webinar on Tuesday 25 October at 14.00 – 15.30 CET focused on Flying Food. Here we present our state-of-affairs of Flying Food and you can ask all questions to cricket experts…
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Expo Proteins 2022 Kigali, Rwanda

On the Poultry Africa Expo on 5 & 6 October 2022 in Rwanda the Netherlands pay attention to insects for feed – especially the use of Black Soldier Flies. The Dutch Embassy,  Netherlands Food Partnership and New Generation Nutrition also pay attention to alternative proteins to feed the growing world population. You can use crickets…
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