How eating insects could save the world - with Dr Tilly Collins - Ep 8

My conversation in this episode is with Dr Tilly Collins. Tilly
is a Senior Fellow at the Centre for Environmental Policy at
Imperial College, London.


She runs research projects in a range of environmental areas, but
in this episode we talk about her work on how to make global food
production more sustainable, and in particular the potential
value of insects as a nutritious and sustainable food source for
human beings.


You may well have seen a few insect food products making their
way on to the shelves of supermarkets as snacks and might have
felt the idea of eating insect is a bit of a novelty, and nothing
more than that. But in our conversation, Tilly explores the
important role they could play in the global food system, and the
role they are already playing in many countries around the
world. 

Tilly certainly showed that there are loads of exciting
possibilities for the future of food production that could really
help to change the world for the better - not just for the
environment, but also for local economies and people's lives.


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