Protein is a shrinking part of the diets of humans and animals. The deficiency is spreading rapidly across the world, but is particularly pronounced in Africa, even though many sources of protein can be found there. What the UN calls Non-Wood Forest Products include a...

  If you’re like many people in the West, you may get squeamish at the thought of eating bugs. Visions of consuming giant hissing cockroaches on Fear Factor may be dancing through your head but it isn’t so crazy. Eating insects is more common than you think. New...

For every dollar spent on food, society pays two dollars in health, environmental, and economic costs. Image: REUTERS/Jean-Paul Pelissier   This article is part of the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting Food is part of our cultural identity and, at the most...

Image: Jan Kopřiva / Unsplash COVID-19 has put additional pressures on the food system. An additional 135 million people could face acute food insecurity in the coming months, and millions more could lose their jobs. To recover and build resiliency, we must create new...

Does the idea of eating insects bug you? Well, think about this: the United Nations predicts that by 2050, if current trends continue, the world’s population will reach 9.8 billion. As a result, global demand for food and feed is expected to increase by 70 per cent,...

Biologically speaking, humans are omnivores and we like to eat a variety of things. There is increasing interest in all sorts of alternative sources of protein as we diversify our diets. This trend is accelerating in 2018. According to Nielsen, the consumer analytics...