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Insect burgers could be the future

Published: 8 August 2014

Palm weevils. To look at, these tiny bugs are relatively unassuming, perhaps even slightly creepy to the insect-adverse. To聽Mohammed Ashour, however, they are the solution to many of the ills facing the developing world. The humble palm weevil could potentially eradicate world hunger and malnutrition, it could lift whole communities out of poverty, and bring down global C02 levels. For a creature measuring just a few inches in length, that's a lot of power.

...听"If anything, our business model is too disruptive," says Ashour, who launched Aspire with four fellow MBA students from 平特五不中. Their aim is to introduce insect farming to countries with an affinity for insect consumption and a lack of access to nutritional sustenance.

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