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Conference in Kisumu

At the beginning of March, a workshop was organised in Kisumu to enhance the legislation and policy in the use of insect as food and feed. Monica Ayieko of JOOUST was part of the organising committee. In the two day conference, many aspects of the legislation were discussed. Both Monica and Erwin , Beckers (TNO)…
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Future cricket outlets

Once cricket production volumes are large enough, the crickets are foreseen to be processed at a central point and sold at the Mixa outlets on markets in Nyalenda, Kibuye and Jubilee. Kibuye market in Kenya is the largest open air market in East and Central Africa. It has temporary and permanent structures built in it.…
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Monitoring mechanism updated

As Flying Food is an innovative project measuring the results of our activities and sharing data with all partners is key to learn and further develop the project. Project staff in Kenya and Uganda makes use of tablets to collect data and images from farmers who manage a cricket knowledge center and to submit it…
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Product development in Kenya

In Kisumu, the Akado farmers group has developed five different products using milled cricket flour. There is a close collaboration between Mixa and the Akado farmer group. The Akado farmers  rear the crickets, which are dried and processed into flour by Mixa and eventually given back to Akado farmers who use the milled cricket flour…
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Market research in Kenya

Within the Flying Food Project, not only rearing but also sales of crickets and cricket deriverd products is very important. Elske Janssens, student at HAS University and supervised by Wendy van der Klein from BoPInc looked into the question whether local consumers will accept food products with this new protein source and in what form. From December…
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30/3 rearing system introduced

The Flying Food project has changed its rearing system. From a 8 bucket to a 30 crates system. The rationale for this radical change: – The buckets have too little ventilation – The age difference between the crickets in the buckets is so large (over a week) that the crickets cannibalize on each other –…
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Status after 1.5 years Flying Food

At one and a half year of operation the Flying Food, Marijke de Graaf of partner ICCO Cooperation and Henk van Deventer of TNO discussed the status of the Flying Food project with local coordinators Ablode Kojo, David Kamukama and Phoebe Owuor in Kenya and Uganda. The project counts with well-established and market oriented farmer…
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Study tour to Thailand

In February 2015, the GreeInsect project organised a study tour to Thailand. A party from the Flying Food Project, consisting of David Kamukama – ICCO, Godfrey Bwogi – Masaka District, Philistine Tieli – ADS, Natasja Gianotten – Jagran, and Jackline Oloo and Prof. Monica Ayieko from JOOUST, was invited to join. This learning visit to…
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Flying Food learning mechanism

As Flying Food is an innovative project learning by doing and applied research is very important. Based on the above mentioned monitoring mechanism we facilitate exchange of knowledge, information and experiences among partners in Kenya, Uganda and the Netherlands. Besides frequent field visits and face2face meetings we make use of a virtual platform accessible to…
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