Edible Insects, Challenges and Opportunities

Subject Areas : Plant Pests

Yahya Ostadi ¹ , Gholamreza Yavari ² , Mohsen Shokat Fadaei ³ , Majid Ahmadian ⁴ , Sohrab Imani5 ⁵

1 - Agricultural Economics, Payame Noor University, Tehran, Iran.
2 - Agricultural Economics, Payame Noor University, Tehran, Iran.
3 - Agricultural Economics, Payame Noor University, Tehran, Iran.
4 - Professor of Economic, Tehran University, Tehran, Iran
5 - Department of Entomology, Islamic Azad University, Science and Research Branch, Tehran, Iran

Received: 2016-05-22 Accepted : 2016-12-11 Published : 2017-02-19

Keywords: Edible insects, Challenges and Food Opportunities, Livestock and poultry, Human food,

Abstract :

The current major challenge is how to make the world’s population in year 2050 reaches 9 billion saved from hunger? Along with recourse can strain’s. The price of food and protein has also increased and it causes a large number of people every day in the world to fall below the poverty line. Now this question arises to over count the problem of hunger of the earth’s population what the other sources are? Here the use of insect potential as a food and feed for humans and livestock and poultry can be a good solution for solving the global feed crisis and starvation. This research is a brief review of the history of edible insects in Iran and the world, nutritional value of insects, humans of food insects in worldwide and introducing some important species of insects and also challenges and opportunities ahead, and benefits and disadvantages of using insects as food.