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Market study in Rwanda

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.…
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Uganda production increases

Masaka Microfinance and Development Cooperative Trust Ltd (MAMIDECOT) is a member-based Savings and Credit Organization (SACCO) and essential partner of Flying Food in Uganda. After the exit of Dutch partners of Flying Food consortium (due to termination of project budgets) Mamidecot managed to continue running the cricket business. This week they acknowledged that performance of…
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Feasibility study Burundi

The Flying Food consortium performed a feasibility study in Burundi in which willingness of consumers was checked to eat crickets and interest of potential farmers, producers and processors to enter this new value chain. Main conclusion is that setting up Flying Food in Burundi will not be easy, but is feasible: More than 50% of…
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FF documentary on NL TV

Florence runs an orphanage in Kenya, and rears crickets to feed her children.  She is very enthusiastic because crickets are easy to rear, affordable and the proteins and minerals of the crickets improve the health of her fragile children. Margot Calis, one of the first insect breeders in the world, is visiting Florence frequently to…
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Cricket disease prevention

Unfortunately, cricket farms in Kenya and Uganda were disastrously affected by a bacterial infection in 2018 and almost the full production collapsed. The local farmers and Dutch partners sincerely regret this occurrence.  But this can happen and is a regular pattern in new value chains with livestock. We developed a remedy to clean up the…
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Flying Food Initiative continues

In June 2018, the 5 year Flying Food Project finished. However, the initiative continues. With active rearing in Kenya and Uganda, microfinance opportunities for farmers in both countries, processing in place and products developed, crickets are expected to grow as a nutritious, delicious food in the community.
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Three farmers groups trained in October

In Uganda, at the beginning of October three groups of farmers were trained by the Flying Food trainers of EntoAfrica. The training included two theory sessions and one practical session for each group and contained several subjects for the farmers to be schooled in. The 30/3 crate system was explained and put into practice with…
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Bora – a Kenyan cricket based product line

Charles Odira, from partner MIXA, has launched a new cricket product line with the name BORA. The first product is ground crickets, that may be applied in a range of products such as cookies, bread or stews.
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Floods in Kenya

Heavy rains in April and May 2018 have caused floods in Kenya (Kisumu area). Cricket farm houses were filled with water. Some of them had to be evacuated with the help of the FF trainers team. One of the trainers remarked: “Someone might think that the water at the background is a lake, but actually it’s…
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Support for partner EntoAfrica by IAP

EntoAfrica has been selected to get funding from the Innovation Against Poverty (IAP) initiative, in which private sector partners take up the challenge to improve food, water, energy and ICT for low-income consumers, based on a sound business case. On 20 October, the contract between EntoAfrica and IAP was signed, and currently EntoAfrica is working…
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