How many people on our planet eat insects: 2 billion?-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

How many people on our planet eat insects: 2 billion?

Published:2022-01-01 Issue:1 Volume:8 Page:1-4
ISSN:2352-4588
Container-title:Journal of Insects as Food and Feed
language:en
Short-container-title:Journal of Insects as Food and Feed

Author:

van Huis A.¹,Halloran A.²³,Van Itterbeeck J.⁴,Klunder H.⁵,Vantomme P.⁶

Affiliation:

1. Laboratory of Entomology, Wageningen University & Research, P.O. Box 16, 6700 AA Wageningen, the Netherlands.

2. Department of Nutrition, Exercise and Sports, Faculty of Science, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

3. GLOBE Institute, Center for Macroecology, Evolution and Climate, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

4. Centre for Asian Area Studies, Rikkyo University, 3-34-1 Nishi-Ikebukuro, Toshima, 171-8501 Tokyo, Japan.

5. In2Care BV, Marijkeweg 22, 6709 PG Wageningen, the Netherlands.

6. Retired senior FAO expert.

Abstract

The estimated figure of two billion people consuming insects mentioned in the 2013 FAO/WUR report about edible insects has been cited many times over. This editorial asks four questions to determine the accuracy of the estimated figure: how to define an ‘insect-eating’ person; which percentage of the population eats insects; how does insect consumption develop over time; and how to define an edible insect? Our conclusion is that it is difficult to establish an exact figure of how many people eat insects globally and that the much cited 2 billion figure in the FAO/WUR report must be an overestimation.

Publisher

Wageningen Academic Publishers

Subject

Insect Science,Food Science

Link

https://www.wageningenacademic.com/doi/pdf/10.3920/JIFF2021.x010

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