Feed & Additive Magazine Issue 2 March 2021

SPECIAL STORY 48 FEED & ADDITIVE MAGAZINE March 2021 "As the Danish great physicist Niels Bohr said: “Prediction is very difficult, especially if it’s about the future.” But I have no doubt the insect sector has a key role to play in the future to provide sustainable and alternative protein on the food and feed market, along with other alternative proteins such as algae and single cells." The marginal solution for alternative proteins: INSECTS Anne Deguerry President of Asian Food and Feed Insect Association (AFFIA) T he growing world population as well as ac- companying problems such as food safety and sustainability force people to constantly find new resources. For example; with the increasing demand for alternative proteins, insects have be- come extremely popular among these new sources. Insect-based proteins, which can be regarded as a marginal solution, are talked about much more in both human and animal nutrition today. We wanted to discuss this issue in detail in the March issue of Feed & Additive Magazine. Our special guest on the subject is Mrs. Anne Deg- uerry, who has been the President of Asian Food and Feed Insect Association (AFFIA) since 2017. Mrs. Deguerry is Co-founder and Executive Com- mittee member of AFFIA, as well as director and shareholder of the BSF farming company Entofood (Malaysia). INSECT-BASED Protein Sources