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The Flying Food Partnership facilitates the crickets business for human consumption in Africa. By implementing an inclusive value chain on crickets we create: access to affordable healthy food for all an innovative, profitable line of business entrepreneurship and local jobs climate smart alternative for traditional livestock. Our mission is to make crickets a mainstream food product…

Are you interested in the cricket business? And are you eager to learn more from the members of the Flying Food Partnership? We will share our experiences in this workshop: Marian Peters – CEO of NGN Ltd, the Netherlands will give you an update about the advantages of crickets Mathilde Miedema  – director at TNO,…

Congratulations InsectiPro! This cricket farm and cricket processing company from Kenya developed a new cricket food product. Nina de Groot, product manager at InsectiPro, presented the Chirrups – a Crunch with a Punch! Chirrups are fried crickets, a snack packed in small sachets. You can buy them in three flavors: Plain, Salt & Vinegar and…

Marian Peters of NGN trained 43 farmers selected from 10 Springboard communities. The training took place from 2-4 March 2022 at the Springboard premises in Akure, Ondo State, Nigeria. The activities are supported with a grant from USAID and implemented in collaboration with the Springboard Cooperative. Currently two demo farms are set up and 10…

With funding from the USAID/Nigeria COVID-19 Food Security Challenge, Springboard, NGN, and Flying Food will help women and youth start cricket farming in Nigeria by providing a trainer and farmer study group. This demo farm is modeled off of New Generation Nutrition and Flying Food’s recent work piloting cricket rearing with local farmers in Kenya and…

Through our website we receive many questions regarding the technical details for cricket farming and the business opportunities. On a regular base we organize online webinars with the aim to link people, exchange knowledge and upscale the cricket business. I like to invite you to our online webinar at 15 September 2021 at 14.00 –…

New farmers are starting with crickets in Gulu in Northern Uganda. Gertjan Flikweert of Foundation Hope voor Afrika is working on microcredits and innovative farming technologies in this region. Crickets will fit perfectly here; many smallholder farmers can expand their activities and create a welcome new source of proteins and income. In the week of…

Worldwide, insect production for food consumption is still at an early and immature stage. What the Flying Food consortium has been established in Kenya and Uganda in 2014-2019 was innovative and challenging; introducing a new product into a new market. As a team we like to share our lessons learned and present our slightly adjusted…