{"id":974,"date":"2017-10-06T14:52:25","date_gmt":"2017-10-06T13:52:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ist.blogs.inra.fr\/agronomy\/?p=974"},"modified":"2017-10-06T14:52:25","modified_gmt":"2017-10-06T13:52:25","slug":"insects-as-sustainable-food-and-feed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/2017\/10\/06\/insects-as-sustainable-food-and-feed\/","title":{"rendered":"Insects as sustainable food and feed"},"content":{"rendered":"<script type='text\/javascript' src='https:\/\/d1bxh8uas1mnw7.cloudfront.net\/assets\/embed.js'><\/script><figure id=\"attachment_975\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-975\" style=\"width: 290px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-975 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inra.fr\/agronomy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2017\/10\/van-huis-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2017\/10\/van-huis-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2017\/10\/van-huis-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2017\/10\/van-huis.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-975\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Picture copyright Van Huis<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Edible insects species are promoted worldwide as sustainable human food and animal feed. Scientists <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/s13593-017-0452-8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Van Huis and Oonincx<\/a> compare the environmental consequences of harvesting insects from nature with insect farming. They review the environmental sustainability of insect farming compared to livestock production, emphasizing several major benefits, such as less land and water needs and low greenhouse gas emissions.<\/p>\n<div class='altmetric-embed altmetric-embed' data-badge-type='donut' data-doi='10.1007\/s13593-017-0452-8'   ><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Edible insects species are promoted worldwide as sustainable human food and animal feed. Scientists Van Huis and Oonincx compare the environmental consequences of harvesting insects from nature with insect farming. They review the environmental sustainability of insect farming compared to livestock production, emphasizing several major benefits, such as less land and water needs and low &#8230; <a title=\"Insects as sustainable food and feed\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/2017\/10\/06\/insects-as-sustainable-food-and-feed\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Insects as sustainable food and feed\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":74,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/74"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}