4. Insect: solution to world hunger
Everywhere wide habitat
Cold-blooded require less energy to stay warm
Life cycle: ~ 30 – 90 days
Less care than livestock
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Crop Nutrition - The world's population continues to grow, which means that agricultural production needs to increase by 70% by 2050.
However without land available for expansion, 90% of that supply will have to come from land already used
Imagine this: Insects feeding on organic materials from other processes, such as spent grains from brewery operations, thus preventing additional waste from going into landfills, and providing added value to the brewery and feed for the insects
Ahmed, E., Fukuma, N., Hanada, M., & Nishida, T. (2021). Insects as Novel Ruminant Feed and a Potential Mitigation Strategy for Methane Emissions. Animals : an open access journal from MDPI, 11(9), 2648. https://doi.org/10.3390/ani11092648
Compared to cattle, weight for weight, insects emitted 80 times less methane — a gas with 25 times more impact on global temperature levels than carbon dioxide.
And crickets produced 8–12 times less ammonia than pigs.
According to the study’s lead author, Dennis Oonincx, an entomologist from Wageningen University in the Netherlands, 80 per cent of the world’s population eats insects, particularly in the developing world.
The results demonstrate that insects produce much smaller quantities of greenhouse gases than conventional livestock such as cattle and pigs
