Global Health, Insects as food & feed, Madagascar

Cricket powder for malnutrition

Cricket powder for malnutriton

Female crickets lay their eggs in a humidified cotton ball. © Emilie Filou

Insects are well-known for their high protein content. In Madagascar, which has one of the highest rates of malnutrition in the world, a cricket farm is selling cricket powder to humanitarian organisations providing famine relief and free-school meals. Read the full story here.

Published in The Telegraph, 24 June 2019.