Insects to Feed the World (IFW)

IFW is the premier academic and industry conference of the insect farming industry for both insect as food and insect as feed.

The first “Insects to Feed the World” (IFW) conference took place in 2014 in the Netherlands and was hosted by Wageningen University & Research (WUR) and The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nation. 450 people from 45 countries attended that first successful event. Conceived and organised by Professor Arnold van Huis, a tropical entomologist at WUR and by Paul Vantomme, Senior Forestry Officer at the FAO, the conference program included 112 presentations and 54 posters on key topics in the field and was preceded by a seminal FAO publication in 2013: “EDIBLE INSECTS: Future prospects for Food and Feed Security” (FAO Forestry Paper, No 171; https:// www.fao.org/3/i3253e/i3253e.pdf) whose authors included A. van Huis and P. Vantomme.