Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Mealworms on the premises of the start-up company Alpha Protein. Based in Germany's Bruchsal, the start-up is trying to breed ...

The world’s population is growing, and so is the challenge of feeding everyone. Current projections indicate that by 2050, global food demand could increase by 59%-98% above current levels. In ...

Insects fed from industrial side-stream waste and then directly consumed as food have the ‘greatest potential to reduce the carbon footprints of European consumers’, claims a new study. It is more ...

With insect farming projected to produce millions of tons of insects in the coming years, Arkansas Agricultural Experiment ...

While insects are traditional sources of food in parts of Latin America, Asia, and Africa, the insect protein industry worldwide is currently experiencing a surge in investment, and is expected to be ...

Loopworm owns and operates its primary production facility in Bangalore, with a current capacity of 6,000 tons annually.

When it comes to resolving a big global food problem, a new breed of farmers and their financial backers are thinking small. Work on the world's largest fly farm has begun in South Africa after the ...

In 2022, pig and poultry farmers in the European Union will be able to feed their livestock purpose-bred insects, following the European Commission’s decision in 2021 to amend a ban on farm feed made ...