The Controversial Issues In The 21st Century

One of the controversial issues in the 21st century is finding an effective way to feed the growing population and solve the problem of malnutrition which is still rampant in Asian countries through eating insects as an alternative food source. The often repeated prediction by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), shows that the global population would grow by over a third, or 2.3 billion people, between 2009 and 2050, which in total remains 9 billion and Asian region takes 56 percentage of whole amount. The growing population increase demand for food and people struggle with resource scarcity such as land and water use which are one of the main problems all over the world. Moreover, Arnold van Huis (2013) states that one of the issues

Sachs (2010) argued that feeding population in future would require the development of alternative sources of protein, such as seaweed, cultured meat beans, fungi and insects. One of the effective ways to solve above written problems is including insects to local diet and growing them to have an insect farming. Insects play a valuable role in sustaining nature, because according to the research conducted by FAO(Food and Agriculture Organization), they consume relatively less water, contain highly variable nutritional components such as protein, fat, micronutrients and vitamins, and, what`s paramount in this case, is less land-dependent. In this project, entomophagy, human consumption of insects, as the solution for malnutrition in Asian countries will be described and analyzed and maintain the idea that insects are environmentally sustainable as they use less land and water, also nutritionally valuable product due to the high calorie and protein, but according to the different prices in regions and marketing insects in unsanitary condition lead to low demand and consumption of edible