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Edible insects: are companies escaping from Italy?
It has been almost a year since our first interview with Marco Ceriani, founder of Italbugs. The Italian start-up is moving more and more towards foreign countries, so we wanted to understand more about that. In spite of your name, your company has been described as part of the brain-drain phenomenon, why? In Italy we […]
Protein for life
Future trends in nutrition for both humans and animals show that the formulation of food and feed products will face an increasing challenge of a global protein shortage. Solutions to this challenge require a multi-targeted approach including efficient use of existing protein sources, and development of new protein sources for human and animal consumption. The […]
Oils from insects: the research in Wageningen
The world of entomophagy isn’t just business, but research and development as well. And the main “shrine” of this research surely is the University of Wageningen, the Netherlands: here worked the main authors of the renowned dossier from FAO, where the ONU agency recommended the adoption of entomophagy to European and North American countries, and […]
3D printing for edible insects-based snacks: an italian research (in Wageningen)
Interview with Domenico Azzollini, PhD candidate at the University of Foggia and currently guest PhD at the University of Wageningen What is your university education? I had an international education, since I had several times the chance to study abroad while remaining tied to the Italian Universitiy. In fact, I initially obtained a Master Degree […]
The Algae Factory: Spirulina and an innovative social model
Interview with Stefania Abbona, founder of The Algae Factory The Algae Factory was founded in 2014, but tell us the story of your interest in algae before that time. The Algae Factory™ is a start-up founded in 2014 with the belief that there must be a new way of doing business, a way in which companies […]
