dc.contributor.author	Roos, Nanna
dc.contributor.author	Verner, Dorte
dc.contributor.author	Halloran, Afton
dc.contributor.author	Surabian, Glenn
dc.contributor.author	Tebaldi, Edinaldo
dc.contributor.author	Ashwill, Maximillian
dc.contributor.author	Vellani, Saleema
dc.contributor.author	Konishi, Yasuo
dc.date.accessioned	2021-10-19T19:34:10Z
dc.date.available	2021-10-19T19:34:10Z
dc.date.issued	2021-12-07
dc.description.abstract	This book presents a heavily disruptive, inclusive, and resilient solution to Africa’s wide-ranging food security challenges. Specifically, it assesses the benefits and costs of using the frontier agriculture technologies to create a circular food economy in Africa, particularly in Fragility, Conflict, and Violence (FCV)-affected countries. This book focuses on two types of frontier agriculture technologies: insect farming and hydroponic crop farming. Both technologies quickly produce nutritious human food and animal feed and could provide tremendous health, social, economic, climatic, environmental, and food security benefits in Africa. Insect and hydroponic farming can create a circular food economy by reusing society’s organic waste, including agricultural and certain industrial waste, to produce foods for humans, fish, and livestock without the need for vast amounts of arable land or water resources. This book finds that frontier agriculture is a viable complement to conventional agriculture in Africa and could meet many of the continent’s social, economic, environmental, and food security challenges. The book also shows that frontier agriculture can be economically competitive with conventional agriculture in the resource constrained environments of African FCV countries, while generating a fraction of the climate and environmental damage. These frontier agriculture technologies show great potential for growth and scalability as the market is rapidly increasing for novel protein sources from farmed insects and for nutrient-rich fruits and vegetables from hydroponic crops.	en
dc.identifier	https://documents.worldbank.org/en/publication/documents-reports/documentdetail/415061638940578422/main-report
dc.identifier.doi	10.1596/978-1-4648-1766-3
dc.identifier.isbn	978-1-4648-1766-3
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/10986/36401
dc.publisher	Washington, DC: World Bank
dc.relation.ispartofseries	Agriculture and Food Series;
dc.rights	CC BY 3.0 IGO
dc.rights.holder	World Bank
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo
dc.subject	FOOD SECURITY
dc.subject	RESILIENT GROWTH
dc.subject	CIRCULAR FOOD ECONOMY
dc.subject	AGRICULTURAL TECHNOLOGY
dc.subject	HYDROPONIC FARMING
dc.subject	INSECT FARMING
dc.subject	ZERO HUNGER
dc.subject	SDG 2
dc.title	Insect and Hydroponic Farming in Africa	en
dc.title.subtitle	The New Circular Food Economy	en
dc.type	Book	en
dc.type	Livre	fr
dc.type	Libro	es
dspace.entity.type	Publication
okr.date.disclosure	2021-12-07
okr.doctype	Publications & Research
okr.doctype	Publications & Research::Publication
okr.docurl	https://documents.worldbank.org/en/publication/documents-reports/documentdetail/415061638940578422/insect-and-hydroponic-farming-in-africa-the-new-circular-food-economy
okr.guid	659111638941021069
okr.guid	627991639603808736
okr.guid	415061638940578422
okr.identifier.doi	10.1596/978-1-4648-1766-3
okr.identifier.report	166697
okr.language.supported	en
okr.region.geographical	Sub-Saharan Africa
okr.topic	Agriculture::Agricultural Research
okr.topic	Agriculture::Agricultural Sector Economics
okr.topic	Agriculture::Agriculture & Farming Systems
okr.topic	Agriculture::Food Security
okr.unit	GFA13
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