TECHNICAL CONSULTATION MEETING 23-25 January 2012, FAO, Roma, Italy “Assessing the Potential of Insects as Food and Feed in assuring Food Security” List of participants and biographies 1 List of Participants PARTICIPANT COUNTRY ORGANISATION TYPE CONTACT Prof. Monica [email protected] 1 Ayieko Kenya Bondo, university College Centre de Recherche pour [email protected] Ir. Séverin la Gestion de la 2 Tchibozo Bénin Biodiversité (CRGB) [email protected] Department of Prof. Dr. Martin Biodiversity 3 Potgieter South Africa University of Limpopo Department of Human [email protected] Nutrition, University of 4 Dr. Nanna Roos Denmark Copenhagen Departamento de [email protected] Dr. Julieta Ramos Zoología, Instituto de am.mx 5 Elorduy Blásquez Mexico Biología, U.N.A.M. Dr. Florence USA, Univ. of Wisconsin - [email protected] 6 Dunkel Montana Madison The Research Institute of [email protected] Dr. Prof. Ying China, Resource Insects, Chinese 7 Feng Yunnan Academy of Forestry Biosciences Research [email protected] Assoc. Prof. Alan Division, Department of 8 Louey Yen Australia Primary Industries Entomology Division, [email protected] Dr. Yupa Faculty of Agriculture, 9 Hanboonsong Thailand Khon Kaen University Instituto Universitario [email protected] CIBIO - Centro Iberoamericano de la Biodiversidad, Dpto de Ciencias Ambientales y Recursos Naturales, 10 Prof. Santos Rojo Spain Universidad de Alicante. Prof. Dr. [email protected] Parimalendu Department of Zoology, 11 Haldar India Visva-Bharati University The [email protected] 12 Margot Calis Netherlands Insect breeder KRECA vof Università degli Studi di [email protected] Prof. Maurizio Padova, 13 Guido Paoletti Italy Dipartimento di Biologia Assist. Prof. [email protected] Jintana Yhoung- Institute of Nutrition, 14 Aree Thailand Mahidol University 2 Departamento de Ciências [email protected] Dr. Eraldo Biológicas, Universidade Meideros Costa Estadual de Feira de 15 Neto Brasil Santana [email protected] 16 Antoine Hubert France Private sector: Ynsect Tilemachos.GOUMPERIS@efsa. europa.eu; [email protected] Tilemachos a.eu 17 Goumperis Italy EFSA: Emerging risk unit ICIPE:African Insect [email protected] Prof. Christian Science for Food and 18 Borgemeister Kenya Health Laboratory of [email protected] BEc., MSc. Dennis The Entomology, Wageningen 19 Oonincx Netherlands university Prof. Dr.Sc. & Department of Agriculture [email protected] PhD Jørgen and Ecology, University of Eilenberg Copenhagen, Faculty of 20 Denmark Life Sciences Assoc. Prof. PhD Department of Agriculture [email protected] Annette Bruun and Ecology, University of Jensen Copenhagen, Faculty of 21 Denmark Life Sciences Ernest Private sector, Organic [email protected] 22 Papadoyianis USA Nutrition Mr. Xavier Private sector, Organic [email protected] 23 Cherch USA Nutrition Christophe Private sector, ACTIA [email protected] Cotillon (Alimentation, Agric- 24 France Pêche & Biotechnologie) Dr. Oliver Private sector, Saria Bio- [email protected] 25 Schneider Germany industries Dr.-Ing. Johannes Private sector, Global [email protected] Paul Schlebusch Applied Science & m Technology, Mars Petcare 26 Germany Mars GmbH Dr. Silvia CRA (Council of Research [email protected] Cappellozza and Experiments in Agriculture). Apiculture and Sericulture Unit of 27 Italy Bologna, Padua seat Dr. Ir. Walter The [email protected] 28 Jansen Netherlands Private sector, Jagran Ir. Marleen Vrij The [email protected] 29 Netherlands Private sector, ZETADEC Francisco Javier [email protected] Gutiérrez Private sector, Centro 30 Pecharromán Spain tecnológico CARTIF 31 Marian Peters The Private sector, VENIK [email protected] 3 Netherlands communication [email protected]; The [email protected] 32 Karel Bolckmans Netherlands Private sector, Koppert [email protected] 33 David Drew South Africa Private sector, AgriProtein Prof.Dr. Nonaka [email protected] 34 Kenichi Japan Rykkio University, Japan Dr. Gillian OIE (World Organisation [email protected] 35 Elizabeth Mylrea France for Animal Health) PhD Student in [email protected] North Biochemistry and 36 Dr. Aaron Dossey America Molecular Biology Student Food-Design [email protected] Polytechnic university of 37 Giulia Tacchini Italy Milan Senior Forestry Officer, [email protected] FAO Regional Office for 38 Patrick Durst FAORAP Asia and the Pacific Robert Van [email protected] 39 Otterdijk FAO Agro-Industry Officer Senior Food Standards [email protected] Officer, Codex 40 Tom Heilandt FAO, WHO Alimentarius Diedelinde [email protected] 41 Persijn FAO Nutrition Intern Ruth [email protected] 42 Charrondiere FAO Nutrition Officer [email protected] 43 Mark Smulders FAO Senior Economist Khaled [email protected] 44 Alrouechdi FAO Agricultural Officer, IPM [email protected] 45 Bill Garthwaite FAO Legal Specialist [email protected] 46 Graham Hamley FAO Legal Specialist Food Safety Assessment [email protected] 47 Marisa Caipo FAO Officer [email protected] 48 Jeff Farber FAO Food Safety Officer Maria [email protected] 49 DeCristofaro FAO Communication Officer [email protected] 50 Pauline Quierzy FAO EMPRESS Food Safety 51 Matthias Halwart FAO Senior Aquaculture Officer [email protected] [email protected] 52 Harinder Makkar FAO Animal Production Officer Forestry Officer, Forest [email protected] conservation service, 53 Edgar Kaeslin FAO wildlife and CBD 4 Tropical entomologist, [email protected] 54 Arnold van Huis WUR Laboratory of entomology Food Technologist, [email protected] 55 Harmke Klunder WUR Wageningen university Senior Forestry Officer, [email protected] 56 Paul Vantomme FAO Non-wood-forest products [email protected] 57 Esther Mertens FAO Forestry Intern 5 Biographies INDEX 3. Ayieko, M. 4. Bolckmans, K. 5. Borgemeister, C. 6. Bruun, A.J. 7. Calis, M. 8. Cherch, X.T. 9. Costa Neto, E. 10. Cotillon, C. 11. Dossey, A. 12. Drew, D. 13. Dunkel, F. 14. Durst, P. 15. Eilenberg, J. 16. Feng, Y. 17. Goumperis, T. 18. Guiterrez, F.J. 19. Hanboonsong, Y. 20. Heilandt, T. 21. Hubert, A. 22. Van Huis, A. 23. Jansen, W. 24. Klunder, H. 25. Makkar, H. 26. Mertens, E. 27. Mylrea, G.E. 28. Nonaka, K. 29. Oonincx, D. 30. Otterdijk, R. 31. Paoletti, M. 32. Parimalendu, H 33. Papadoyianis, E. 34. Peters, M. 35. Potgieter, M. 36. Ramos-Eolorduy, J. 37. Rojo, S. 38. Roos, N. 39. Scapelloza, S. 40. Schlebusch, J. 41. Schneider, O. 42. Smulders, M. 43. Tacchini, G. 44. Tchibozo, S. 45. Vantomme, P. 46. Vrij, M. 47. Yen, A.L. 6 48. Yhoung-Aree, J. Prof. Monica A. Ayieko- a Consumer Economist- is an Associate Professor at the School of Agriculture, Food Security and Biodiversity, Bondo University College. She is the current Director of Quality Assurance at the College. She holds a Ph.D. degree in Family and Consumer Economics from University of Illinois. She served with the Kenya Ministry of Agriculture as household extension worker in Coast, North Eastern, and Nyanza provinces between 1974 and 1983. She also has experience working with both international and local NGOs and serves in several community boards of governors. Her current research work is mainly on edible insects. Prof Ayieko started working with edible insects in 2002 when she realized that there were a lot of edible insects in her village yet people were not keen on using then as human food. Few families collect insects from the natural habitats whenever the long and short rainy seasons set in. Even though, it is mainly children and women from poor homes who collect edible insects. Few other people collect lake flies and black Formicidae ants for their medicinal values. To begin her work on entomophagy, Ayieko used her own meager salary to collect different species of edible insects. She talked to the elderly villagers and gathered more information about the species. She has since regularly collected edible insects for her own family consumption. Apart from the few experiments she did on cooking methods in her own kitchen, she obtained more information from various publications. Getting funds to research on edible insects was not readily forthcoming but eventually the barrier was overcome and obtained her first funding in 2005. After the firsts survey on consumption of edible insects, she quickly noted that many people would like to eat the insects but are not attracted by how the insects look on plates. With the limited laboratory resources at her university and by seeking help from other institutions with conventional food analysis technology, Ayieko has done basic nutritional analysis of edible winged termites (Macrotermes species), lake flies (Chironomus and Chaoborus), longhorn grasshoppers (Ruspolia differens), black formicidae ants (Carebara vidua Smith) which are readily available within the Lake Victoria region. To respond to the wishes of the general consumers, Ayieko has attempted to work on processed products of termites and lake flies and successfully formulated biscuits, crackers, muffins, meatloaf and sausages. The products have been patented in Kenya pending product refinement for the consumer market. To overcome the tedious problem of collecting the insects, she has constructed and tested improved rural technology for collection of termites and lake flies. Since her consistent research on edible insects, Ayieko has received modest research funds from RPSUD, NCST, VicRes. She has presented several papers on edible