Insect and Hydroponic Farming in Africa: The New Circular Food Economy
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Insect and Hydroponic Farming in Africa : The New Circular Food Economy. / Verner, Dorte; Roos, Nanna; Halloran, Afton Marina Szasz; Surabian, Glenn; Tebaldi, Edinaldo; Ashwill, Maximillian; Vellani, Saleema; Konishi, Yasuo.
Washington : World Bank Publications, 2021. 283 p. (Agriculture and Food Series).Research output: Book/Report › Book › Research › peer-review
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TY - BOOK
T1 - Insect and Hydroponic Farming in Africa
T2 - The New Circular Food Economy
AU - Verner, Dorte
AU - Roos, Nanna
AU - Halloran, Afton Marina Szasz
AU - Surabian, Glenn
AU - Tebaldi, Edinaldo
AU - Ashwill, Maximillian
AU - Vellani, Saleema
AU - Konishi, Yasuo
N1 - CURIS 2021 NEXS 366
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - This book presents a heavily disruptive, inclusive, and resilient solution to Africa’s wide-ranging food security challenges. Specifically, it assesses the benefits and costs of using the frontier agriculture technologies to create a circular food economy in Africa, particularly in Fragility, Conflict, and Violence (FCV)-affected countries. This book focuses on two types of frontier agriculture technologies: insect farming and hydroponic crop farming. Both technologies quickly produce nutritious human food and animal feed and could provide tremendous health, social, economic, climatic, environmental, and food security benefits in Africa. Insect and hydroponic farming can create a circular food economy by reusing society’s organic waste, including agricultural and certain industrial waste, to produce foods for humans, fish, and livestock without the need for vast amounts of arable land or water resources. This book finds that frontier agriculture is a viable complement to conventional agriculture in Africa and could meet many of the continent’s social, economic, environmental, and food security challenges. The book also shows that frontier agriculture can be economically competitive with conventional agriculture in the resource constrained environments of African FCV countries, while generating a fraction of the climate and environmental damage. These frontier agriculture technologies show great potential for growth and scalability as the market is rapidly increasing for novel protein sources from farmed insects and for nutrient-rich fruits and vegetables from hydroponic crops.
AB - This book presents a heavily disruptive, inclusive, and resilient solution to Africa’s wide-ranging food security challenges. Specifically, it assesses the benefits and costs of using the frontier agriculture technologies to create a circular food economy in Africa, particularly in Fragility, Conflict, and Violence (FCV)-affected countries. This book focuses on two types of frontier agriculture technologies: insect farming and hydroponic crop farming. Both technologies quickly produce nutritious human food and animal feed and could provide tremendous health, social, economic, climatic, environmental, and food security benefits in Africa. Insect and hydroponic farming can create a circular food economy by reusing society’s organic waste, including agricultural and certain industrial waste, to produce foods for humans, fish, and livestock without the need for vast amounts of arable land or water resources. This book finds that frontier agriculture is a viable complement to conventional agriculture in Africa and could meet many of the continent’s social, economic, environmental, and food security challenges. The book also shows that frontier agriculture can be economically competitive with conventional agriculture in the resource constrained environments of African FCV countries, while generating a fraction of the climate and environmental damage. These frontier agriculture technologies show great potential for growth and scalability as the market is rapidly increasing for novel protein sources from farmed insects and for nutrient-rich fruits and vegetables from hydroponic crops.
KW - Faculty of Science
KW - Insect farming
KW - Hydroponic farming
KW - Frontier agriculture technologies
KW - Human food
KW - Animal feed
KW - Circular food economy
KW - Africa
M3 - Book
SN - 978-1-4648-1766-3
T3 - Agriculture and Food Series
BT - Insect and Hydroponic Farming in Africa
PB - World Bank Publications
CY - Washington
ER -
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