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TECHNICAL CONSULTATION MEETING 23-25 January 2012, FAO, Rome, Italy Assessing the Potential of Insects as Food and Feed in assuring Food Security SUMMARY REPORT

FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNITED NATIONS Forestry Department, Rome, Italy, 01 March 2012

Cover Photograph: Group picture of the participants on the rooftop of FAO Headquarters, Rome

Assessing the Potential ofInsects as Food and Feed in assuring Food Security SUMMARY REPORT

Document compiled by Paul Vantomme Senior Forestry Officer paul.vantomme@fao.org Esther Mertens FAO Consultant esther.mertens@fao.org Non-Wood Forest Products Forest Products and Industries Division Forestry Department FAO Rome, Italy 00153 Edible Insects Program: http://www.fao.org/forestry/65422/en/

and Arnold van HuisTropical entomologist Laboratory of entomology arnold.vanHuis@wur.nl Harmke Klunder Food Technologist harmke.klunder@wur.nl Wageningen University Wageningen, The Netherlands

FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNITED NATIONS Forestry Department, Rome, Italy, 01 March 2012

Table of Contents
Objectives of the meeting................................................................................................. 1 Executive summary ........................................................................................................... 2 Action Plan ....................................................................................................................... 6
PrivateSector........................................................................................................................... 6 Public Sector ............................................................................................................................ 6 Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO)................................................................... 6 Communication strategy.......................................................................................................... 7 Towards a global conference on edible insects as food and feed (2014) ..................................... 7 Un-edited compilation of issues and proposed actions as elaborated by each working group during the meeting ................................................................................................................... 8
Strategy and action plan for theprivate sector ............................................................................................. 8 Strategy and action plan for the public sector ............................................................................................ 10 Strategy and action plan for the FAO ..........................................................................................................11 Strategy and action plan for communication strategies ............................................................................. 12 Towards an international conference on insects as food and feed ............................................................ 14

Summary notes of the working groups ............................................................................ 18
Insectecology and biology ...................................................................................................... 18 Farming insects at household level ......................................................................................... 19 Industrial scale mass production ............................................................................................. 20 Insects forlivestock and fish feed ........................................................................................... 21 Nutrition ................................................................................................................................ 23 Insect food processing and trade ............................................................................................ 24 Food safety...