Can we farm aquatic insects for human food or livestock feed?

Insects as Livestock Feed

Biorefinery: Producing biologically-based products and energy from biomass Oviposi�on: The laying of eggs Pathogens: A bacterium, virus, or other microorganism that can cause disease Prions: An infec�ous, transmissible protein thought to be the cause of TSE Substrate: The material on or from which an organism lives, grows, or obtains its nourishment Valorisa�on: Recovering of value from dispose...

Journal of Insects as Food and Feed

The largest portion of a product’s environmental impacts and costs of manufacturing and use results from decisions taken in the conceptual design phase long before its market entry. To foster sustainable production patterns, applying life cycle assessment in the early product development stage is gaining importance. Following recent scientific studies on using dipteran fly species for waste man...

Journal of Insects as Food and Feed

There is an urgent need to increase the supply of sustainable protein for use in animal feed and the use of insect protein provides a potential alternative to protein crops and fishmeal. For example, fly larvae are highly compatible with use in animal feed containing much digestible protein with levels of key amino acids that are comparable with those found in high value alternatives such as so...

Aquatic Insects: Hemimetabolous Insects – Plecoptera

State of the Art Report Insects as Food and Feed

FAO has considered insects as food since 2003 [1] and is promoting consumption of insects (entomophagy) in the Western world because of the possibilities for sustainable production it offers. Insects as food are considered to leave smaller ecological footprints than conventional livestock (beef, pigs, and poultry) regarding feed, land and water needs, as well as greenhouse gas and ammonia emiss...