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Introduction Eric Michels

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• Project leader insects at CJ Wildbird Foods / Vivara • Head of Sales CJ Wildlife Trade (B to B) • Chairman Venik (United Dutch Insectbreeders: branch organization) • Driving force of IPIP (Insect Protein Innovation Platform)

How to feed the World?

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How to feed the World?

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80% of the worldpopulation eats insects

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Insects walk on 6 legs

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desert locusts in 1 swarm 50.000.000.000 insects per 1 km² land 10.000.000.000 insects per person 200.000.000 species (estimated) 6.000.000 species described > 1.000.000 species edible 2.040 species farmed in NL 29

80% of all animals on earth walk on 6 legs Estimated: 200 - 2.000 kg insects p.p.

The most interesting insect species

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Beetle larvae

- Mealworms

- Morioworms

- Buffaloworms

Fly larvae

- Black Soldier Fly

- House fly

- Meat fly

Locusts/crickets

- House cricket

- Field cricket

- Migratory locust

- Desert locust

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Insects are efficiently

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Insects are efficiently

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Insects are efficiently

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1 kg beef less waste

3 kg pork 10 kg feed less manure

5 kg chicken meat less greenhouse gas

9 kg locusts

Future challenge

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Press releases

Eating insects is

inevitable (De Telegraaf – 25 oktober 2015)

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Press releases

Bugs are a sustainable source of

omega 3

(Nieuwe Oogst – 8 januari 2016)

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Press releases

Insects: a protein-rich ingredient

in pig and poultry diets

(Wageningen UR – 30 maart 2015)

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Press releases

Insects according to UN a solution

against hunger

(De Volkskrant – 13 mei 2013)

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Press releases

Insects can grow on residual

flows that chickens do not eat

(NRC handelsblad – 9 mei 2015)

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Press releases

EFSA: insects potentially

nutritious

and safe

(Boerderij – 9 oktober 2015)

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Press releases

Mealworms good alternative

to soya

(Nieuwe Oogst – 29 september 2015)

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Press releases

Government wants Dutch people

to eat more often insects

(nu.nl - 30 oktober 2015)

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Business opportunities

“Chances are on the streets, you just have to bend…”

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Business opportunities

Red Ocean Blue Ocean

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Euregion: heart of European insect cultivation

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Why this region ?

All ingredients present:

• Agrifood knowledge (livestock, horticulture, mushrooms) • Feed Design Lab • Transport en Logistics • Industrial automation en climate control • Education and research • Strong support of authorities

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What do we need ?

• Insect breeders • Food en Feed processing • Farmaceutical, Medical en Chemical technology • (Pet)Food en Feed supply • Construction company, climate control and automation • Waste processing, bio-waste supply • Knowledge development (nutrition, climate, housing, …) • Education and research • Investors en financers • …. Complete yourself

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How further ?

Own future vision on insects Own oppurtunities – future earnings

Own responsibility

Join: IPIP

Demand Supply Combining strenghts

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Triple Helix

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Companies Government Education & Research

Together Strong !

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Six themes around insects

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Euregion: heart of European insect cultivation

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“If you build an airport here, the planes will come to land”

Eric Michels - Vivara

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