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In a world where 1 billion people suffer from hunger, lands and seas are overexploited and production systems are unsustainable, and there is an urgent need to find alternative...

Non-crop habitats, depending on their composition, can enhance the abundance and diversity of natural enemies of crop pests, but also at the same time provide resources to pests, thereby...

Highlights Alternative protein sources are viewed to be more sustainable than animal proteins. Potential replacers for animal proteins need to have similar functional...

In the discourse about the development of farmed animal production (terrestrial livestock production and aquaculture) in the tropics, two important food system outcomes emerge: (1) to supply animal-sourced...

Smallholder farming (SHF) currently faces major challenges of sustainability to ensure food security while improving environmental conditions. Sound management of crop arthropods is central...

Several previous studies have investigated changes in insect biodiversity, with some highlighting declines and others showing turnover in species composition without net declines. Although...

India is a growing global power with consistent high economic and technological growth. However, the share of agriculture in the gross domestic product is declining. Reduced input-use efficiency of the factors...

Today, the Commission is launching an open public consultation on the revision of the EU Pollinators Initiative, the EU framework to tackle the decline of wild pollinators. The revision will contribute to the efforts...

Insect-based food and feed have received a lot of attention recently. The EU Farm-to-Fork Strategy, for example, mentions insects as an alternative feed material that could reduce the environmental...

The term 'locusts' refers to insect species which can aggregate into migratory swarms that cause wide-scale destruction of crops and pasture, causing significant effect to food security...