Christine Picard’s search for a better bug to feed the world starts with dead bodies. Well, not the corpses themselves, but the blow flies, flesh flies, and other squirmy, wriggly things that wing ...

Insect farming startup Ynsect has secured more funding as it expands globally and looks to prioritize higher-value food for pets and humans. The French company closed a €160 million, or $175 million, ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) The schools face up to $30 million in cuts to staff and programs in the upcoming ...

On a sprawling site an hour north of Paris in the French city of Amiens, a new vertical farm now under construction won’t be growing lettuce or vegetables. Instead, it will soon begin raising hundreds ...

Zimbabwean farmer Brighton Zambezi rears chicken at his backyard farm in Harare's Sunningdale. (Photo by Farai Shawn Matiashe) This is your first of three free stories this month. Become a free or ...

This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article. What is the life of a cricket worth? Besides being big business, insect farms also ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. But just as we are starting to understand insect senses, something is shifting in the ...

Evolving views on food are challenging traditional diets — and not just for humans. Innovative dining options are also being added to the menus of our pets. Startups have proposed numerous new ways to ...

Ÿnsect, a French mealworm company, completed a staggering $372 million in funding to build the world’s largest insect farm–the company has now received more investment in total ($425 million) than the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover women social entrepreneurs, peace builders and change agents. When in 2017, Mante Sidlauskaite, founded her ...

Did you know your lipstick might be made from beetles? Or that some cat food may soon be made from flies? People farm insects for all sorts of reasons: Farmers rear bees to pollinate billions of ...

Did you know your lipstick might be made from beetles? Or that some cat food may soon be made from flies? All told, trillions of insects are farmed each year across the globe – more than all other ...