See, all you do is cast insulting aspersions, as if that is supposed to prove something.
WEF is the World Economic Forum that was meeting last week in Davos. It was all over the news. Seriously, they want poor people in Africa to eat insects, rather than to advance their technology and burn any fossil fuels. That head guy who was speaking is downright scary.
That's old news , Sept 2022.
UK urges hunger-stricken African nations to farm insects
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Aid projects in DRC and Zimbabwe encourage rural inhabitants to eat insects rich in vitamins and minerals
Mealworms for sale at Gambela market in Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Photograph: Reuters
Mark Tovey
Fri 2 Sep 2022 07.00 EDTLast modified on Fri 2 Sep 2022 16.57 EDT
UK aid spending is encouraging hunger-stricken Africans to eat insects, with projects aiming to develop the practice in the
Democratic Republic of the Congo and Zimbabwe.
Edible insects have long been touted as a resource-efficient source of protein, requiring less land and water than conventional livestock. However, taste and cultural resistance have proved to be stumbling blocks in extending the practice in many parts of the world.
In a move to realise the substantial on-paper benefits of insect-eating, a £50,000 UK aid project in the DRC is putting African caterpillars, migratory locusts and
black soldier flies on the menu.
Workers gather mopane caterpillars, preparing them for sale in Kopa, Zambia. Photograph: Sue Cunningham /Alamy
The initiative is being spearheaded in the North and South Kivu provinces of the DRC, where cattle farming is one of the few ways to make a living for rural inhabitants. But as the population in these regions grows, space for animal husbandry is dwindling and beef farming is putting a strain on water supplies.
Twenty-three species of insect are already consumed in the South Kivu region, although the Congolese do not usually farm them, instead opportunistically gathering them depending on the season. Edible insects commonly eaten in the region include the African palm weevil, the litter beetle, termites and crickets.
The project is listed on the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office’s development tracker website as seeking “to promote the production of insects for human food and for use in the manufacture of animal feeds”. The initiative is said to run from March to December 2022 with funds provided by the Catholic Agency for Overseas Development (Cafod), a charity in England and Wales.
