Forage-fed insects as food and feed source: Opportunities and constraints of edible insects in the tropics
Farmed insects can provide an alternative protein source for humans, livestock, and fish, while supporting adaptation to climate change, generating income for smallholder farmers, and reducing the negative impacts of conventional food production, especially in the tropics. However, the quantity, nut...
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| author | Espitia, Paula A. Hernández, Luis Miguel Burkart, Stefan Palmer, Neil Cardoso Arango, Juan Andrés |
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| description | Farmed insects can provide an alternative protein source for humans, livestock, and fish, while supporting adaptation to climate change, generating income for smallholder farmers, and reducing the negative impacts of conventional food production, especially in the tropics. However, the quantity, nutritional quality and safety of insects greatly relies on their feed intake. Tropical forages (grasses and legumes) can provide a valuable and yet untapped source of feed for several farmed insect species. In this perspective paper, we provide a viewpoint of how tropical forages can support edible insect production. We also highlight the potential of tropical forage-based diets over those using organic agricultural or urban by-product substrates, due to their versatility, low cost, and lower risk of microbial and chemical hazards. The main bottlenecks relate to dependence on the small number of farmed insect species, and in public policy and market frameworks regarding the use of edible insects as food, feed and in industrial processes. This perspective will serve interested stakeholders in identifying urgent issues at the research, ethical, marketing and policy levels that can prevent the emergence of new, insect-based value chains and business models, and the nutritional, economic and environmental benefits they promise. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1160752025-12-08T10:29:22Z Forage-fed insects as food and feed source: Opportunities and constraints of edible insects in the tropics Espitia, Paula A. Hernández, Luis Miguel Burkart, Stefan Palmer, Neil Cardoso Arango, Juan Andrés insects as food food security sustainable development enterprises entomophagy food policies insectos destinados al consumo humano seguridad alimentaria desarrollo sostenible empresas entomofagia política alimentaria Farmed insects can provide an alternative protein source for humans, livestock, and fish, while supporting adaptation to climate change, generating income for smallholder farmers, and reducing the negative impacts of conventional food production, especially in the tropics. However, the quantity, nutritional quality and safety of insects greatly relies on their feed intake. Tropical forages (grasses and legumes) can provide a valuable and yet untapped source of feed for several farmed insect species. In this perspective paper, we provide a viewpoint of how tropical forages can support edible insect production. We also highlight the potential of tropical forage-based diets over those using organic agricultural or urban by-product substrates, due to their versatility, low cost, and lower risk of microbial and chemical hazards. The main bottlenecks relate to dependence on the small number of farmed insect species, and in public policy and market frameworks regarding the use of edible insects as food, feed and in industrial processes. This perspective will serve interested stakeholders in identifying urgent issues at the research, ethical, marketing and policy levels that can prevent the emergence of new, insect-based value chains and business models, and the nutritional, economic and environmental benefits they promise. 2021-11-11 2021-11-15T10:26:57Z 2021-11-15T10:26:57Z Journal Article https://hdl.handle.net/10568/116075 en Open Access application/pdf Frontiers Media Espitia Buitrago, P.A.; Hernández, L.M.; Burkart, S.; Palmer, N.; Cardoso Arango, J.A. (2021) Forage-fed insects as food and feed source: Opportunities and constraints of edible insects in the tropics. Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems 5:724628. ISSN:2571-581X |
| spellingShingle | insects as food food security sustainable development enterprises entomophagy food policies insectos destinados al consumo humano seguridad alimentaria desarrollo sostenible empresas entomofagia política alimentaria Espitia, Paula A. Hernández, Luis Miguel Burkart, Stefan Palmer, Neil Cardoso Arango, Juan Andrés Forage-fed insects as food and feed source: Opportunities and constraints of edible insects in the tropics |
| title | Forage-fed insects as food and feed source: Opportunities and constraints of edible insects in the tropics |
| title_full | Forage-fed insects as food and feed source: Opportunities and constraints of edible insects in the tropics |
| title_fullStr | Forage-fed insects as food and feed source: Opportunities and constraints of edible insects in the tropics |
| title_full_unstemmed | Forage-fed insects as food and feed source: Opportunities and constraints of edible insects in the tropics |
| title_short | Forage-fed insects as food and feed source: Opportunities and constraints of edible insects in the tropics |
| title_sort | forage fed insects as food and feed source opportunities and constraints of edible insects in the tropics |
| topic | insects as food food security sustainable development enterprises entomophagy food policies insectos destinados al consumo humano seguridad alimentaria desarrollo sostenible empresas entomofagia política alimentaria |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/116075 |
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