Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. All told, trillions of insects are farmed each year across the globe – more than all other livestock combined. Each year, ...

Despite the initial hype, insect agriculture is facing the economic realities of competing with the traditional meat industry.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Besides being big business, insect farms also provide important sources of protein and income for rural households. They can be ...

How the frenzy over farming insects for food went bust.

Insect farming startup Ynsect has secured more funding as it expands globally and looks to prioritize higher-value food for pets and humans. The French company closed a €160 million, or $175 million, ...

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Christine Picard’s search for a better bug to feed the world starts with dead bodies. Well, not the corpses themselves, but the blow flies, flesh flies, and other squirmy, wriggly things that wing ...

Antoine Hubert, CEO and co-founder of Ynsect. (To receive weekly emails of conversations with the world’s top CEOs and business decisionmakers, click here.) Global food production accounts for ...

In a warehouse not far from Paris, 60 million black soldier flies give birth to larvae that are scalded, ground up and used to feed salmon and shrimp. The place doesn’t smell great. Innovafeed SAS is ...

Evolving views on food are challenging traditional diets — and not just for humans. Innovative dining options are also being added to the menus of our pets. Startups have proposed numerous new ways to ...

Zimbabwean farmer Brighton Zambezi rears chicken at his backyard farm in Harare's Sunningdale. (Photo by Farai Shawn Matiashe) This is your first of three free stories this month. Become a free or ...