Yes, good advice. You’ve heard it before, but in case you haven’t, by 2050 the global population will hit 10 billion. That’s 3 times the number of hungry people we have right now. With all of our dwindling resources, insect protein is definitely an answer.
It might not be the answer, but it is one answer.
Speaking at the World Government Summit in Dubai, experts said governments have a huge role to play in managing new avenues of agriculture and steer populations away from less sustainable, traditional models of food supply. And there are many ways that insects – which are plentiful and often the source of good protein – could be either added to supplies of fish and chicken, or eaten directly.
According to the World Health Organisation, after steadily declining for over a decade, global hunger is on the rise again, affecting 815 million people in 2016, or 11 per cent of the global population.
