Agriculture is actually facing three major issues. The first issue is to produce enough food for the ever growing world population. The second issue is the increasing cost and use of mineral fertilisers. The third issue is the huge amounts of organic waste produced by human activities. Insects could solve those issues. Indeed insects can be used as food and feed. Also insect larvae often feed on decaying organic matter in nature. A such process can thus be used to transform organic waste, such as compost, into food and feed. Moreover, the compost residue can be used as plant fertiliser. Lalander et al. used black soldier fly to transform compost into biomass. They observed a high waste conversion and a reduction of microbial diseases.
