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Esther Amoding is manager of the Flying Food demofarm for crickets. This farm is based in Masaka, Uganda. The farm is 8 m2 and insulated to keep the crickets around 30 degrees Celcius day and night, the whole year round. She is using 60 crates for farming and she is currently multiplying the crickets to…

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…

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

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…