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logo 11/16/2024 8:37:01 AM     
Could maggots fed on Kenyas food waste replace wild-caught fish feed? 
By Jackson Ambole Okata KE Source: dialogue 7/4/2024
Jackson Ambole Okata
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.
 

In Kenya, the environmentalists behind Project Mila, which in Swahili means tradition, are employing the larvae to clean up food waste, as well as nurture mangroves and feed fish in coastal farms.

  
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