by Jochen Duerr
Do grasshoppers only eat grass? This was only one of the many interesting questions discussed and answered at the INSECTA 2019 conference. The international science gathering took place at the University of Potsdam near Berlin in Germany, in the impressive “Neuen Palais” (see Foto) of the World Heritage site of Sanssouci Park, September 5 – …
by Jochen Duerr
ProciNut researcher Sarah Nischalke reported in her last research and travel blog posts about the culture of eating and producing insects in Myanmar and Thailand. She observed that whereas in Thailand edible insects are a large-scale industry, in Myanmar its potential has to be exploited fully yet (read also here). In this blog, ProciNut member …
by Jochen Duerr
The question of how to best put science into practice is not new but still subject of public and experts’ debate. In reality it is not that easy to accomplish. An amazingly successful approach to put theory into practice was taken by ZEF’s NutriHAF project, a German-Ethiopian participatory research and capacity building project. It is …