Flash Lecture: Hello! I am a Black Soldier Fly and I am Transforming the Global Food System by Niraly Mangal, Doctoral Researcher, Singapore-ETH Centre (SEC)
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Flash Lecture: Hello! I am a Black Soldier Fly and I am Transforming the Global Food System by Niraly Mangal, Doctoral Researcher, Singapore-ETH Centre (SEC)
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Friday, 17 February 2023 9.40am
Venue: CREATE Tower, 1 Create Way, Theatrette Level 2, Singapore 138602
What does a future-proof food system look like? How do we ensure a circular food system in our cities? To ensure a truly circular food system, food waste management holds the key to closing the loop. This talk presents a nature-based solution for urban food waste management using the Black soldier fly. Black soldier flies (BSF) represent an opportunity for realising a key principle of the circular economy by targeting organic waste for continuous circulation into novel forms of value. BSF are fast-growing insects that can transform food waste into sustainable high-protein feed ingredients for poultry and aquaculture diets. These high-tech, high-producing, space-efficient farms could become an integral part of Singapore’s food system by helping to reduce and recycle food waste. They can be embedded into our dense urban environment to use land efficiently and synergise with the built environment of Singapore to also reap social benefits of urban agriculture. This talk elaborates on developing design, network and operational solutions for BSF integration in dense urban environments.
Venue: CREATE Tower, 1 Create Way, Theatrette Level 2, Singapore 138602
What does a future-proof food system look like? How do we ensure a circular food system in our cities? To ensure a truly circular food system, food waste management holds the key to closing the loop. This talk presents a nature-based solution for urban food waste management using the Black soldier fly. Black soldier flies (BSF) represent an opportunity for realising a key principle of the circular economy by targeting organic waste for continuous circulation into novel forms of value. BSF are fast-growing insects that can transform food waste into sustainable high-protein feed ingredients for poultry and aquaculture diets. These high-tech, high-producing, space-efficient farms could become an integral part of Singapore’s food system by helping to reduce and recycle food waste. They can be embedded into our dense urban environment to use land efficiently and synergise with the built environment of Singapore to also reap social benefits of urban agriculture. This talk elaborates on developing design, network and operational solutions for BSF integration in dense urban environments.
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2023-02-17
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This talk presents a nature-based solution for urban food waste management using the Black soldier fly.
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“Flash Lecture: Hello! I am a Black Soldier Fly and I am Transforming the Global Food System by Niraly Mangal, Doctoral Researcher, Singapore-ETH Centre (SEC),” NTU CCA Singapore Digital Archive, accessed April 27, 2024, https://ntuccasingapore.omeka.net/items/show/4553.
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