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Crickets at health & nutrition fair

On Saturday 19 August, at the Health & Nutrition fair organized by Uganda Manufacurers’ Association in Kampala, Uganda, our partner EntoAfrica Ltd presented to the public their novel product BUUKA! BUUKA is derived from a Luganda-language word which means “Jump!” The brand was chosen to illustrate the highly nutritious properties of crickets which contribute to…
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Microfinance institution RAFODE joins the Flying Food initiative

Rearing crickets starts to be an attractive enterprise to be a part of. To support the farmers that want to start this new business, the microfinance institution RAFODE in Kenya has agreed to join the Flying Food initiative. RAFODE is microfinance institution registered in 2007. It operates in Western Kenya with 5 offices in Kisumu,…
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Revealing Flying Food business potential

End of June, Marijke de Graaf (ICCO), Erwin Beckers (TNO) and Margot Calis (Protifarm) visited the locations of the Flying Food project. During the visit, a number of the partners that research, rear, coach and process were frequented. The farmers and trainers were coached to increase the performance of rearing, while also the system to…
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Collaboration with MAMIDECOT

Rearing crickets is currently an attractive enterprise to get involved into! In an effort to support the small-holder farmers that want to start this new business, one of the leading microfinance institutions in Uganda, called Masaka Microfinance and Development Cooperative Trust Limited (MAMIDECOT)  has agreed to join the Flying Food Project initiative. MAMIDECOT is an…
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Processing workshops great success!

Now that rearing is starting its first upscaling steps, all information on processing and product development that has been gathered in the past few years can slowly be put into practice as well. In November 2016, a series of workshops on primary processing were given by Marleen Vrij to the local trainers and to groups…
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EntoAfrica joins the project

In the past months, intensive contact with Zahid Wissanji has led to the start-up of a large-scale rearing facility in Uganda. EntoAfrica aims at providing healthy food in a country where hidden hunger is a prime concern. Together with the Flying Food Project, the company has decided to move cricket rearing in the region forward…
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Flying Food Uganda scales up to 40 Cricket Rearing Centres

Flying Food Uganda received 1,100 cricket rearing crates from TNO in May 2016 for the phase I project upscaling. A total of 32 new farmers were mobilized and profiled. This was done in close collaboration with MAMIDECOT, a microfinance cooperative headquartered in Masaka, engaged through the Masaka District Administration (local government). Farmers received an intensive 4-day training…
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Cricket rearing as science

To optimize cricket rearing for the local conditions in the local culture around the Victoria lake, a lot of factors have to be investigated. In a recent publication associate professor Monica Ayieko (of partner JOOUST) explained the diversity of challenges that have to be solved. She describes some of the products that were made using…
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Extra support for Flying Food project

We are proud to announce that the Achmea Foundation supports the Flying Food project by a donation and a loan as well as with an in-kind contribution on risk assessment. The focus of the support is rearing in Kenya. Training and support of starting farmers is realized and a microfinancing system will be set-up. Furthermore,…
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Cricket research at the Uganda Martyrs University

Within the Flying Food project, cricket rearing is set up in Kenya and Uganda. For successful rearing, conditions have to be just right. Temperature, housing, feed, egg laying and many other parameters have to be optimized for local conditions. To investigate the rearing parameters under local conditions and speed up the rearing process, Uganda Martyrs…
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