Entomophagy: an innovative nutritional and economic navigational tool in race of food security
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Entomophagy: an innovative nutritional and economic navigational tool in race of food security Rimsha Naseem 1 & Waqar Majeed 1 Muhammad Rehan Naseem 2
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Naureen Rana 1 & Elmo Borges de Azevedo Koch 3
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Received: 20 May 2020 / Accepted: 18 September 2020 # African Association of Insect Scientists 2020
Abstract The dilemma of food security and lack of essential nutrients are two fundamental reasons that draw the world's attention towards insects as an alternative source of nutrients. Insect provide us with better quality proteins, low-fat contents as well as essential micronutrients with a high and quick source of energy than any other conventional source of food. Insect farming has been adopted by many people of different regions at domestic and commercial level because of its low input and high output. Moreover, innovation in processing techniques with effective marketing strategies made entomophagy a more viable source of food. The techno-functional properties of insect proteins make it a more reliable and sustainable source than plants and seeds proteins. Now a days, different attractive products of edible insects are present in the market which enhances its consumer acceptance. Hence, entomophagy is a viable, sustainable, cheaper and highly nutritive tool in the race of food security. Humans should prefer the production and consumption of insect’s products so that burden of crops may reduce and being healthy food, it will improve diet. Keywords Food . Insects . Services . Tools
Introduction The subject of food security has been boomed day by day with an increasing population (Gahukar 2011; Van Huis 2013), and it is predicted that it will increase up to 9 billion by 2050. This bell is alarming in developing countries where about 827 million people starve from hunger (Van Huis et al. 2013). When the threshold level of the sustainable ecosystem overlaps, it set down pressure that resulted not only in food scarcity but also in degradation of agricultural land, infertility of soil, the explosion of diseases, energy crisis, increase in food prices, and disparity of resources. If this alarming situation persists
* Waqar Majeed [email protected] 1
Department of Zoology, Wildlife and Fisheries, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, Pakistan
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Department of Agriculture Sciences, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, Pakistan
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Myrmecology Laboratory, Cocoa Research Center - CEPEC/ CEPLAC, Ilhéus, Brazil
for a long time, people will be impoverished for food (Gahukar 2009, 2011; Kumar 2010). There is an estimate that by 2030, food demand will rise to 50% (Beddington 2010). In all the above scenarios, undoubtedly, entomophagy is the best option to meet the energy demands as it provides a more practical, sustainable, advanced, and viable solution. This review outlooks the comprehensive and recent approaches towards edible insects as a novel food, which also increases the association with a suitable economy.
Entomophagy The term entomophagy or insect-eating is no longer unfamiliar to the m
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