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Conference ‘Insects to feed the world’

May 19, 2014

The Flying Food Project was heavily represented at the conference ‘Insects to Feed the World’ in Wageningen. Delegations from Kenyan, Ugandan and Dutch partners were present, TNO had a stand highlighting the project, and the project organised a break-out session on the rearing of crickets. Over 450 experts and entrepreneurs from numerous sectors and 45…

Flying Food in a dutch article on entomophagy

March 8, 2014

Eating insects is attracting more and more attention world wide – also in the Netherlands, where eating insects is still very uncommon. In the food magazine ‘ Gezond Eten’, the Flying Food project was mentioned in an article about entomophagy. PDF article: GeNL1403_042045_KokenMetInsecten_ok Website: www.gezondetenmagazine.nl

Optimisation egg laying places

March 8, 2014

For cricket farms it is important to have a high production of crickets. A part of the production is crickets laying eggs. The cricket farms use different types of substrates for crickets to lay eggs in, depending on which country the crickets are reared in. In Thailand farmers use rice husks combined with sand as…

The first student project

May 29, 2013

The first student project of the Flying Food project is finished – it was on the digestibility of crickets in relation to processing. Michelle van Oort, student of the Maastricht University, wrote about her work in the Dutch Magazine VoedingsIndustrie Read the article: 201309_voedingsindustrie (PDF)

Start of the project

May 28, 2013

In May 2013 the Flying Food project started with the ambitious goals of setting up hundreds of cricket farms in the Nyanza and Masaka regions in Kenya and Uganda. The farmers will provide thousends of low income consumers with highly nutritious crickets.

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Conference ‘Insects to feed the world’

Flying Food in a dutch article on entomophagy

Optimisation egg laying places

The first student project

Start of the project

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