Intensive agriculture is often criticized for negative impacts on environment and human
health. This issue may be solved by a better management of organisms living in crop fields …

Insects are considered as a potential substitute for fishmeal (FM) and soybean meal (SBM)
in feeding mixtures for poultry diets. The intent of this paper is to appraise the current work …

It has taken time for the international community to accept the idea of biodiversity values, a
concept which had previously been restricted to the limited aesthetic and touristic aspects of …

This book provides stimulating and timely suggestions about expanding the world food
supply to include a variety of minilivestock. It suggests a wide variety of small animals as …

Brewers' spent grain (BSG) is a by-product of brewing that is usually used as low-value
animal feed, although it can be better exploited in biotechnological processes, such as …

Objective To examine whether earthworms of Eisenia fetida, Lumbricus rubellus and
Eudrilus eugeniae extracts have elastase, tyrosinase and matrix metalloproteinase-1 (MMP …

Earthworms have provided ancient cultures with food and sources of medicinal cures.
Ayurveda, traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), and practices in Japan, Vietnam, and Korea …

Protein is the main limiting factor and the second most expensive feed component of poultry
ration after energy. In many developing countries, poultry feed prices are consistently …

Insects, a traditional food in many parts of the world, are highly nutritious and especially rich
in proteins and these represent a potential food and protein source. The ethnic people of …

Anthropologists1 are fond of pointing out that much of what we take for granted as “natural”
in our lives is actually cultural—it is not grounded in nature or in biology but invented by …