The environmental impact of insect productions The last day of the conference started strong with the keynote of Dr Sergiy Smetana, from the Food Data Group, on the environmental impact of insect production for food, feed and beyond. The Food Data Group investigated edible insects’ producers and measured their ecological production impact to present this […]
Keys to a better genetic selection plan Christine Picard opened the third day of the congress with an enlightening presentation on genetic selection. Inspired by lessons from the past, she described the domestication process in three different stages. The adaptation stage’s purpose is to recreate a specific insect’s environment under artificial conditions. The acclimatation process […]
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Today’s keynote speaker at the start of the afternoon was Mohammed Ashour. Mr. Ashour, the co-founder, and CEO of Aspire Food Group shared his inspiring vision of the development of the edible insect sector in two presentations with a high attendance rate. With a background in neuroscience and an MBA, his approach to insect-production systems […]
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The highly successful International Congress Insects to Feed the World, launched the week packed with the latest research and industrial development on insect production. The first day started with a warm welcome from the organizing committee of Université Laval and government agencies from Québec. Senator Michèle Audette followed with her notable intervention on Canadian […]
