14 Aug
16 Aug

Harare, Zimbabwe

Registration open: The First African Conference on Edible Insects

Welcome to a conference on innovations, research and development on edible insects for transformation of livelihoods in Africa.

Scientists, academics, students, investors, policy-makers, communities and all interested parties in edible insect research and development, consumption and industrial utilization are invited to submit abstracts for this conference.

Themes of the conference:

  1. Innovations in captive rearing of insects as food and animal feed
  2. Innovation in insect processing, product development, nutrition, and food safety and functional foods
  3. Enterprise development, stewardship and legislation on edible insects use as food and livestock feed
  4. Indigenous knowledge and social systems of edible insects in Africa

Deadlines

  1. Deadline for submission of abstracts and posters: 27 June 2019
  2. Feedback on abstract acceptance/rejection: 10 July 2019
  3. Deadline for registration: 25 July 2019

Do you want to talk about the conference? Please use hashtag #EdibleInsectsAfrica

Facts

Time: 2019-08-14 - 2019-08-16
City: Harare, Zimbabwe
Organiser: AgriFoSe2030 and Chinhoyi University of Technology, Zimbabwe

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Contact

Robert Musundire

Department of Crop Science and Post Harvest Technology
Chinhoyi University of Technology
P. Bag 7724, Chinhoyi, Zimbabwe
Phone: +263778601918
Email: agrifose@cut.ac.zw