Bugs for Life

bugs for life is an interdisciplinary, international, intergender notforprofit supergroup promoting insects for food security globally. we work collaboratively with communities in benin to increase their food resilience, and also deliver educational programmes in the uk and beyond to spread the word about the benefits of edible insects! why do we do this? there are more than 7 billion people on planet earth, with more arriving every day. by 2050, that number will have risen to 9 billion, who will all have needs that make demands upon our increasingly fragile ecosystems food demand is expected to rise by around 50% in the next 20 years, but land for producing it is becoming increasingly scarce. over 70% of agricultural land - an area as large as the americas - is used up farming livestock for human consumption. and the costs of rearing, transporting and processing these food sources are taken into account, the enormous financial and environmental inefficiency of traditional farming meth