To provide a worldwide population of ten billion people by 2050 with tasty, affordable, healthy and sustainable food, we need to adopt a circular production and consumption system. Insects are an important resource to valorize wastestreams that cannot easily be converted directly in other ways. Moreover, insects are highly efficient upcyclers compared to other livestock animals and a high value source for proteins. One of the main barriers that producers are still facing to grow the market for insects, is to find a suitable market with a high enough price according to the costs price of the product. Insect products that are developed for human consumption have a great potential to reach the right market conditions. As Foodvalley NL we also spoke to various partners in the supply chain, and they see a great potential for an initiative with various parties in the supply chain who bundle efforts and ambitions to work together on a transition towards more insects on the plate of the customer.

With this initiative that we start as Foodvalley NL, we work towards new collaborations that result in bringing new products and market concepts from edible insects successfully to the plate of the consumer in the Northwest Europe market. We also partner with various global parties like the Network for Insect Knowledge in the Netherlands en Enterprise Singapore to realise a professional, scalable and safe value chain together.