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Brooklyn Bugs Festival
Brooklyn Bugs strives to raise appreciation and awareness for edible insects through delicious, education, and fun programming. A core part of its mission is to engage and educate people of all ages. Brooklyn Bugs Festival – November 14-16 2018 Info here
IPIFF annual Conference
Bringing together insect producing companies, high level representatives from the EU institutions, industry & consumers’ representatives, this conference aims to take stock of main drivers towards the development of European insect sector. This event will also explore different avenues for insect producers to best respond to European consumers and farmers’ demands, notably in the context […]
Insetti commestibili al Salone del Gusto
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InsectSpace Symposium
The symposium InsectSpace 2018 will focus on edible insects for human consumption. How can we overcome disgust and repulsion with insects? Researchers, food scientists, entrepreneurs and food designers will present interesting insights about why and how to use insects in our diet. Wageningen – October 10 Info and tickets here
Horizon Insects
Interview with Tiziana di Costanzo, co-founder of Horizon Insects How did you get involved with the edible insect world? All the way back in 1995, an old lady approached our taxi in Bangkok and offered us a little plastic bag full of beautiful emerald-green beetles. When she saw the puzzled expression on our faces, she […]
The MIGHTi project
Interview with Valerie Sull, cofounder of Mighti Tell us about the project Mighti MIGHTi –which stands for the Mission to Improve Global Health Through Insects- is a collaborative research project housed at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA. We use robust, interdisciplinary research to investigate the social, environmental, and health implications of insect agriculture and entomophagy. […]
Novel food applications
In a recent article, Jonas House, an expert in food acceptance and edible insects, addressed the current industry’s state of the art in Europe. He mentioned that there are currently four species of edible insects that are most widely available on the market. Since the new Novel Food regulation that came in place on the […]
