How to Breed a Tasty Cricket

Published: 25 September 2015

It’s hard to hear anything over the chirping. Cardboard boxes filled with egg cartons and sheets of plastic buzz with thousands of young-adult crickets calling out to one another to mate. The brush...

Can a palm weevil cure world hunger?

Published: 31 July 2014

Every week, Inside Africa takes its viewers on a journey across Africa, exploring the true diversity and depth of different cultures, countries and regions.

Are Bugs the Secret Weapon to Fighting World Hunger?

Published: 15 July 2014

Mohammed Ashour has an idea he is certain will help the world’s millions of impoverished, ill-nourished slum dwellers. It’s simple: Feed them bugs.

Peneliti Kanada Berharap Serangga dapat Atasi Masalah Pangan Global

Published: 12 June 2014

Berkurangnya pasokan makanan dunia sempat membuat PBB tahun lalu memromosikan hidangan dari seranggayang kaya nutrisi, tinggi protein, rendah lemak dan mudah didapatkan. Selain itu dalam konferensi...

Ottawa researcher hopes bugs can address global food insecurity

Published: 11 June 2014

Gabe Mott is spending the summer in Mexico, where the company he's part of is trying to figure out how to industrialize the production of insects — or micro-livestock — to address global food...

Canadian startup banks on bugs as ‘the new sushi’

Published: 6 June 2014

Mohammed Ashour dreams of a world where gourmet grasshoppers are devoured by urban professionals, where savoury palm weevils are slurped back as delicacies.

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