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

Energy, land, building and labor costs are cheaper in Southeast Asia, and there are not the same restrictions on feedstock," says Protix.

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 ...

How the frenzy over farming insects for food went bust.

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 ...

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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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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...