Credit: Africapics / Alamy |
A group of young Kenyans has pinpointed an unusual solution to the problems of food waste and fish feed produced unsustainably from wild-caught fish stocks: maggots.
The larvae of the black soldier fly are devouring unwanted food in projects around the world. Their excrement, known as frass, can be used as a fertiliser for land-based crops, and their protein-rich bodies, harvested before they turn into flies, can be fed to livestock. |