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The British Government is Experimenting With Feeding African Kids Worms, Locusts, and Flies.


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International Pulse

The British government is funding projects pushing Africans to farm and consume insects, including school-age children, in randomized trials, to assess their effects

 

The United Kingdom Research and Innovation (UKRI) – a subsidiary of the country’s Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy – is responsible for backing the projects taking place in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Zimbabwe.

With a roughly $320,000 grant from the aid office, researchers in Zimbabwe will be experimenting with using mopane worms in porridge served to children in schools. Poor children aged seven to 11 in the towns of Gwanda and Harare will be fed the concoction derived from the caterpillars, which researchers allege are high in vitamins and minerals.:snip:

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