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With funding from the USAID/Nigeria COVID-19 Food Security Challenge, Springboard, NGN, and Flying Food will help women and youth start cricket farming in Nigeria by providing a trainer and farmer study group. This demo farm is modeled off of New Generation Nutrition and Flying Food’s recent work piloting cricket rearing with local farmers in Kenya and…

Through our website we receive many questions regarding the technical details for cricket farming and the business opportunities. On a regular base we organize online webinars with the aim to link people, exchange knowledge and upscale the cricket business. I like to invite you to our online webinar at 15 September 2021 at 14.00 –…

New farmers are starting with crickets in Gulu in Northern Uganda. Gertjan Flikweert of Foundation Hope voor Afrika is working on microcredits and innovative farming technologies in this region. Crickets will fit perfectly here; many smallholder farmers can expand their activities and create a welcome new source of proteins and income. In the week of…

Worldwide, insect production for food consumption is still at an early and immature stage. What the Flying Food consortium has been established in Kenya and Uganda in 2014-2019 was innovative and challenging; introducing a new product into a new market. As a team we like to share our lessons learned and present our slightly adjusted…

You are invited to join the open webinar ‘Insects as business opportunity for feed and food’. Taking place on 15 December at 13:00 – 14:00 CET. Are you interested in farming insects or processing insects? Get the latest insights at this webinar. TNO will host this online workshop and we will explore insects as an…

We wish all our Flying Food partners a Happy New Year with lots of profit and impact in the cricket business! Illustration by Anne Klusman for Flying Food.

Also the Rwanda Agriculture Board is interested to introduce crickets for food in Rwanda. The Flying Food consortium (TNO and ICCO) in collaboration with a local company Nutrifarm – Rwanda Cricket Farming ltd and Rwanda Agriculture Board will perform a market study in the coming months. This will comprise a technical and economic feasibility study.…