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The African Leadership University from Rwanda organizes the Edible Insect for Food Conservation Event championed by five Global Challenges students on the 18th of April 2023 from 1 pm to 3:30 pm at the Leadership Center of the African Leadership University, Bumbogo, Kigali Innovation City, Next to Azam. You can also join online. This event…

Interested in the cricket business for food applications? With the aim of mutual learning and inspiration, I like to invite you to our online webinar on Tuesday 25 October at 14.00 – 15.30 CET focused on Flying Food. Here we present our state-of-affairs of Flying Food and you can ask all questions to cricket experts…

On the Poultry Africa Expo on 5 & 6 October 2022 in Rwanda the Netherlands pay attention to insects for feed – especially the use of Black Soldier Flies. The Dutch Embassy,  Netherlands Food Partnership and New Generation Nutrition also pay attention to alternative proteins to feed the growing world population. You can use crickets…

During the Green Week of the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA)  in Ibadan, Nigeria in the last week of September 2022 we presented the achievements of our Insect Impact cluster and the Cricket project with Springboard and USAID. Marian Peters and John Amole of NGN also participated and our local partners demonstrated their bread…

The Flying Food Partnership facilitates the crickets business for human consumption in Africa. By implementing an inclusive value chain on crickets we create: access to affordable healthy food for all an innovative, profitable line of business entrepreneurship and local jobs climate smart alternative for traditional livestock. Our mission is to make crickets a mainstream food product…

Are you interested in the cricket business? And are you eager to learn more from the members of the Flying Food Partnership? We will share our experiences in this workshop: Marian Peters – CEO of NGN Ltd, the Netherlands will give you an update about the advantages of crickets Mathilde Miedema  – director at TNO,…

Congratulations InsectiPro! This cricket farm and cricket processing company from Kenya developed a new cricket food product. Nina de Groot, product manager at InsectiPro, presented the Chirrups – a Crunch with a Punch! Chirrups are fried crickets, a snack packed in small sachets. You can buy them in three flavors: Plain, Salt & Vinegar and…

Marian Peters of NGN trained 43 farmers selected from 10 Springboard communities. The training took place from 2-4 March 2022 at the Springboard premises in Akure, Ondo State, Nigeria. The activities are supported with a grant from USAID and implemented in collaboration with the Springboard Cooperative. Currently two demo farms are set up and 10…