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Edible Insects

Edible Insects is a cultural taxonomy within the anthropology of food that categorizes insect species consumed as food based on their symbolic, nutritional, and ecological roles in human subsistence practices.

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Publications

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Herbivory in global climate change research: direct effects of rising temperature on insect herbivores

Jeffery S. Bale, Gregory J. Masters, I. D. Hodkinson et al. · Global Change Biology · 2002 · 2.7K citations · Full text

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The Nutritional Ecology of Immature Insects

J. Mark Scriber, Frank Slansky · Annual Review of Entomology · 1981 · 1.9K citations

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Ecology of Infochemical Use by Natural Enemies in a Tritrophic Context

L.E.M. Vet, Marcel Dicke · Annual Review of Entomology · 1992 · 1.8K citations · Full text

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State-of-the-art on use of insects as animal feed

H.P.S. Makkar, Gilles Tran, Valérie Heuze et al. · Animal Feed Science and Technology · 2014 · 1.8K citations

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Edible insects: future prospects for food and feed security

A. van Huis, Joost Van Itterbeeck, Harmke C. Klunder et al. · Socio-Environmental Systems Modeling · 2013 · 1.7K citations · Full text

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Authors

9.4K

  1. AV
    A. van Huis

    Wageningen University & Research, Netherlands

    33 publications · 6.6K citations

    24

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  2. JK
    John Kinyuru

    Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology, Kenya

    26 publications · 1.3K citations

    20

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  3. CM
    Chrysantus M. Tanga

    International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology, Kenya

    27 publications · 1.2K citations

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  4. SE
    Sunday Ekesi

    International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology, Kenya

    22 publications · 1.5K citations

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  5. SN
    Saliou Niassy

    International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology, Kenya

    17 publications · 931 citations

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Institutions

2.3K

  1. Wageningen University & Research

    Wageningen, The Netherlands

    50 h-index

    228 publications

    33.9K citations

  2. University of Copenhagen

    Copenhagen, Denmark

    32 h-index

    106 publications

    12.7K citations

  3. International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology

    Nairobi, Kenya

    29 h-index

    198 publications

    12.5K citations

  4. Agricultural Research Service

    Washington, United States

    28 h-index

    104 publications

    6.2K citations

  5. Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology

    Nairobi, Kenya

    23 h-index

    77 publications

    4.3K citations

  6. Cornell University

    Ithaca, United States

    23 h-index

    55 publications

    4.3K citations

  7. United States Department of Agriculture

    Washington, United States

    22 h-index

    48 publications

    10.2K citations

  8. Ghent University

    Ghent, Belgium

    21 h-index

    73 publications

    7K citations

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Venues

  1. Annual Review of Entomology

    101 publications · 17.2K citations

    56

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  2. Journal of Insects as Food and Feed

    134 publications · 6.9K citations

    47

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  3. Foods

    66 publications · 3.3K citations

    36

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  4. Journal of Economic Entomology

    109 publications · 4.5K citations

    32

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  5. PLoS ONE

    51 publications · 5K citations

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