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Journal paper #41231

Macombe, C.; Le Feon, Samuel; Aubin, Joël and Maillard, F. (2019) UNSPECIFIED [Marketing and social effects of industrial scale insect value chains in Europe: case of mealworm for feed in France.] Journal of Insects as Food and Feed, pp. 215-224.

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Document available online at: https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-02390191


Summary

Insects are becoming part of the human diet in many regions of the world, either directly or indirectly, as livestock feed. Insects could become a significant feed ingredient if produced at industrial scale, but it is a challenge. Such an emerging sector would result in substantial social effects. One innovation of the DESIRABLE project is exploring potential social consequences induced by industrial scale development of insect production in France for feed, under several production and marketing assumptions. First, this paper explains how the stakeholders and researchers involved in the project built and selected some framework scenarios, which depict upstream (production and meal processing) scenarios. Downstream scenarios were designed based on interviews with specialists in poultry, trout, and feed production markets, that allowed to proposing plausible scenarios for marketing. The potential outlets are more or less narrow market 'niches': feed for laying hens to produce organic eggs, or for farmed trout eating insect meal. Second, the method for evaluating social effects linked with the emergence of the new insect' industry, a social life cycle analysis in four detailed scenarios. The main positive social effects of the four detailed scenarios result from job creation in the insect production sector, while effects on other feed-ingredient suppliers are few. Negative effects result from the allergy risk for employees and potential disturbance to nearby neighbourhoods, but the latter can be easily managed by carefully choosing the locations. In the two scenarios with integrated bio refinery, exists a major risk that could stop the industrial project: activists could use environmental or animal-welfare concerns to oppose the bio refinery, because of agricultural land and water preservation and/or opposition to industrial scale insect production. Nevertheless, insect meal can help preserve fishery resources by providing a constant substitute for fish meal.


EPrint Type:Journal paper
Keywords:fish feed (en), poultry feed (en), social life cycle analysis (en), bio refinery (en), impact (en), inequality (en), products (en), health (en), Agriculture (en), Entomology (en), Food Science & Technology (en), edible insects (en), food (en), life-cycle (en), insects (en), marketing (en)
Subjects:"Organics" in general
Research affiliation: France > INRAe - Institut national de recherche pour l’agriculture, l’alimentation et l’environnement
DOI:10.3920/jiff2018.0047
Project ID:HAL-INRAe
Deposited By: PENVERN, Servane
ID Code:41231
Deposited On:12 Aug 2021 10:37
Last Modified:12 Aug 2021 10:37
Document Language:English

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