UKEIA has joined the UK Agri-Tech Centre as a member this week, taking advantage of the excellent opportunities for our members to network with its growing community of innovators, entrepreneurs, and businesses across the agri-food supply chain.
Membership will also enable us to promote insect protein and the challenges our sector faces to researchers, innovators and tech companies and to collaborate in developing solutions, working together to grow the presence of insect farming in the UK.
The centre is an independent company that provides leadership and guidance to try and progress transformational change across the agri-food supply chain for people and planet, while still stimulating economic growth. In other words, it’s an organisation that wants to tackle critical challenges such as climate change, labour availability, disease mitigation and environmental sustainability, using expertise and solutions from both inside and outside the agricultural sector.
UKEIA’s membership is a mixture of those actively involved in insect farming here in Britain or overseas, those looking to start a farm, or companies creating a range of products, from protein bars, to crisps, to restaurant meals. As such, the new membership should provide a great opportunity to highlight our burgeoning sector.
Managing Director, Dr Nick Rousseau, said: “The urgent demand for more sustainable food and feed solutions means that it’s absolutely time for us to work holistically with other farmers, producers and manufacturers across the agricultural world, and wider industry too. We’re really looking forward to getting stuck in and meeting, mingling and sharing ideas and innovations with other Agri-Tech members.
“We’re also keen to see insect farming included in reports like Agri-Tech’s recent overview into ‘Lifestock and Aquaculture Innovation: shaping the next ten years’ - as we’re convinced, and research agrees - that insect protein will play a huge part in food and feed as the decade progresses.”
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