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

But the past decade has shown that even if you build an insect farm, the global market may not come. Of the 20 or so largest ...

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 ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) The schools face up to $30 million in cuts to staff and programs in the upcoming ...

On a sprawling site an hour north of Paris in the French city of Amiens, a new vertical farm now under construction won’t be growing lettuce or vegetables. Instead, it will soon begin raising hundreds ...

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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 ...

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, ...

Ÿnsect, a French mealworm company, completed a staggering $372 million in funding to build the world’s largest insect farm–the company has now received more investment in total ($425 million) than the ...

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 ...

Going to the grocery store these days can be a painful experience, with record-high price hikes biting into Canadian food ...

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 ...