With insect farming projected to produce millions of tons of insects in the coming years, Arkansas Agricultural Experiment ...

When Francine Mashimango fled violence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) with her nine children in 2018, she never imagined that a few years later, she would be supporting her family by ...

A new peer-reviewed study published in the respected scientific journal, Biological Reviews, has cast doubt on the widely touted environmental benefits of insect farming. It may cause second thoughts ...

Are insects the future of farming? Researchers in Germany say there are many benefits to bug farming. While insects are consumed by people in cultures around the world, these scientists aren’t farming ...

(Beyond Pesticides, June 20, 2025) A study in Conservation Genetics, entitled “Organic farming fosters arthropod diversity of specific insect guilds – evidence from metabarcoding,” showcases the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover women social entrepreneurs, peace builders and change agents. When in 2017, Mante Sidlauskaite, founded her ...

They did it under cover of darkness: mothers, fathers, grandparents, children. Only at night are the locusts still and silent, their thick, yellow bodies roosting on whatever trees, crops, and grasses ...

Bayer and university researchers summarized several years of data, concluding that short-stature corn systems reduced carbon intensity for growing corn by 13%. The same study concluded that root ...