The role of edible insects to mitigate challenges for sustainability
Raquel Guiné,Paula Correia,Catarina Coelho,Cristina Amaro da Costa +3 more
- Vol. 6, Iss: 1, pp 24-36
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The article was published on 2021-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 48 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Gastronomy & Food security.read more
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Exploring the Future of Edible Insects in Europe
Simone Mancini,Giovanni Sogari,Salomon Espinosa Diaz,Davide Menozzi,Gisella Paci,Roberta Moruzzo +5 more
TL;DR: In the EU, edible insects are considered novel foods, therefore a specific request and procedure must be followed to place them in the market; in fact, until now, four requests regarding insects as a novel food have been approved as mentioned in this paper .
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Towards more environmentally sustainable diets? Changes in the consumption of beef and plant- and insect-based protein products in consumer groups in Finland.
Mari Niva,Annukka Vainio +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated consumers' self-reported past changes and future intentions to change the consumption of beef and alternative, plant- or insect-based protein products, and found that the use of alternative proteins was associated with higher health and sustainability motives, and lower food neophobia.
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Edible Insects: Preliminary Study about Perceptions, Attitudes, and Knowledge on a Sample of Portuguese Citizens.
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the knowledge, attitudes, consumption habits, and degree of acceptability of edible insects (EI) or derived products among Portuguese consumers, and found that people tend to have correct perceptions about the sustainability issues associated with the use of insects as alternative sources of protein; however, the level of knowledge and overall perception about their nutritive value is low.
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Environmental Issues as Drivers for Food Choice: Study from a Multinational Framework
Raquel Guiné,Elena Bartkiene,Sofia G. Florença,Ilija Djekic,Maša Černelič Bizjak,Monica Tarcea,Marcela Leal,Vanessa Ferreira,Ivana Rumbak,Panagiotis Orfanos,Viktória Szűcs,Dace Klava,Małgorzata Korzeniowska,Kathy K. Isoldi,Paula Correia,Manuela L. Ferreira,Ana Paula Cardoso +16 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore some motivations that influence people's eating habits towards sustainability and find that people prefer fresh local foods from the season, being important because it allows transportation and storage to be reduced, which in many cases implies refrigeration systems and consequent energy expenditure.
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Food Security and Sustainability: Discussing the Four Pillars to Encompass Other Dimensions
Raquel Guiné,Maria Lúcia Pato,Cristina Amaro da Costa,Daniela Costa,Paulo Barracosa Correia da Silva,Vítor João Pereira Domingues Martinho +5 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the current contexts of food security, its relationship with sustainability, and identify proposals and actions that may support the design of more adjusted policies in the future, in order to assess if the food security pillars properly address the sustainability goals and if the evolution of undernutrition is accompanied by sustainable frameworks.
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Edible insects: future prospects for food and feed security
TL;DR: In this article, a wide range of scientific research on the contribution that insects make to ecosystems, diets, food security and livelihoods in both developed and developing countries is presented, with a focus on the role of insects in agriculture.
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Food, livestock production, energy, climate change, and health
TL;DR: To prevent increased greenhouse-gas emissions from this production sector, both the average worldwide consumption level of animal products and the intensity of emissions from livestock production must be reduced, and an international contraction and convergence strategy offers a feasible route to such a goal.
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Potential of Insects as Food and Feed in Assuring Food Security
TL;DR: With a growing world population and increasingly demanding consumers, the production of sufficient protein from livestock, poultry, and fish represents a serious challenge for the future, and the development of costeffective, automated mass-rearing facilities that provide a reliable, stable, and safe product is needed.
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Nutritional composition and safety aspects of edible insects
TL;DR: Although the data were subject to a large variation, it could be concluded that many edible insects provide satisfactorily with energy and protein, meet amino acid requirements for humans, are high in MUFA and/or PUFA, and rich in several micronutrients.
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A good life for all within planetary boundaries
TL;DR: Using indicators designed to measure a safe and just development space, the authors quantify the resource use associated with meeting basic human needs, and compare this to downscaled planetary boundaries for over 150 nations, finding that no country meets basic needs for its citizens at a globally sustainable level of resource use.