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# Feeding Madagascar: Inside an Edible Insect Farm

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## Video: Feeding Madagascar: Inside an Edible Insect Farm

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_Published 2021-02-26. A cricket farm in Madagascar provides insect protein for famine relief and conservation. How much further could it go?_


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## Transcript

There's no way you can think about a happy future for Madagascar. Unless you come up with alternative protein Source, this is an alternative that makes sense it so many levels. How can I go to a local? Billy to say, don't go in and eat the bushmeat there. Don't go in and cut down the tree Once you had it and I'll charge it. And they want, they just hit me, 70% of the people, in Madagascar, still to the state consumer edible insects. What if we took the best ones, if they're going to have to find them at scale? We wanted up to bring an existing farmable insect wanted to find something. Native the people could relate to.

And we found a species that a product looks just like the one they pee. What we've taken is a tradition and figured out how to increase access to it. Globally. There's only like three species that are grown in terms of edible insect industry. There's thousands and thousands of potential species in Madagascar, and we want to take advantage of 300 million years of insect Evolutions that we can pop her solution. Whatever you have property, combined with malnutrition and bar, diversity issues. This can be extended It's coming even for the us, our food system, people realize now it's a major source of greenhouse gases and impacts of climate change and biodiversity of the angles in which people who want to try edible insects and once they try it, but keep coming back because it tastes really good.

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