The Insectrial Revolution: Stimulating the establishment of a world-leading sustainable insect industry in the UK

黑兵苍蝇(BSF)养殖现在被广泛接受为应对世界上一些最大的农业挑战的关键解决方案。BSF可以同时将食物垃圾回收到以昆虫为基础的动物饲料(鱼粉的可持续替代品)和生物肥料(化学肥料的可持续替代品)中。这种高度复杂的农业系统需要来自研究、政府和商业部门的专家的投入。目前还没有一个组织拥有所有所需的专业知识。虽然全球已经投入了数百篇科学论文和数百万英镑来验证BSF农业技术的变革潜力，但展示大规模、有利可图的BSF农业运营的竞赛仍在继续。英国拥有领先的BSF专家，他们的专业知识覆盖整个价值链。2017年，这项申请的合作伙伴成立了英国昆虫生物质转化工作组(IBCWG)，将他们的专业知识与共同的理念结合在一起，即我们的综合知识大于其各部分的总和。单独来看，我们是昆虫学、工程学、数据分析、机器视觉、食品安全和食品供应链领域的领先专家，但通过合作，我们可以部署高利润和可持续的BSF农业系统。该项目提供了一个令人兴奋的机会，将我们的专业知识和集体抱负结合起来，通过开发一个**有利可图**、**可持续**和**可扩展**的完整BSF农业系统来建立英国作为全球行业领先者的地位。该项目将通过以下方式实现BSF农业的变革性：*提供系统演示程序，使用我们开创性的高度自动化技术将工业数量的食物垃圾转化为昆虫动物饲料和生物肥料；*生成数据，证明BSF农业在英国**有利可图**、**低碳**和**可扩展**；*验证**以昆虫为基础的动物饲料**和**生物肥料**的**安全性**和**功效**；以及*证明产品安全并解决最终的立法瓶颈。通过证明上述内容，我们**打开了获得增长融资的渠道**，这将使我们能够**快速扩展**英国和海外的BSF养殖业。合作伙伴打算将英国打造为BSF农业和技术的国际卓越中心。到2040年，我们的目标是在全球提供超过100个地点，创造3300个英国就业机会，为英国纳税企业创造4亿GB的年收入，并节省**5000万吨二氧化碳**当量[IBCWG\]-推动我们实现政府**净零排放**的目标。

Black Soldier Fly (BSF) farming is now widely accepted as a key solution to tackling some of the world's biggest challenges in agriculture. BSF can simultaneously recycle food waste into insect-based animal feed (a sustainable alternative to fishmeal) and biofertiliser (a sustainable alternative to chemical fertilisers). This highly complex farming system requires input from experts across research, governmental and commercial sectors. No single organisation is currently in possession of all the required expertise. Whilst hundreds of scientific papers and millions of pounds have been invested globally into validating the transformative potential of BSF farming techniques, the race is still on to demonstrate large-scale, profitable BSF farming operations. The UK is home to leading BSF specialists with expertise covering the entire value chain. In 2017, partners in this application formed the UK Insect Biomass Conversion Working Group (IBCWG) to combine their expertise with the shared idea that together our combined knowledge is greater than the sum of its parts. In isolation, we are leading specialists in entomology, engineering, data analytics, machine vision, food safety and food supply chains but, together, we can deploy highly profitable and sustainable BSF farming systems. This project provides an exciting opportunity to combine our expertise and collective ambition to establish the UK as the global industry leader by developing a complete BSF farming system that is **profitable**, **sustainable** and **scalable** to leapfrog global competition.This project will realise the transformative nature of BSF farming by: * Delivering system demonstrators that converts industrial quantities of food waste into insect-based animal feed and biofertilizer using our groundbreaking, highly automated technology; * Generating the data to prove that BSF farming is **profitable**, **low carbon** and **scalable** in the UK; * Validating the **safety** and **efficacy** of **insect-based animal feed** and **biofertiliser**; and * Prove product safety and address the final legislative bottlenecks.By proving the above, we **unlock access to growth finance** which will enable us to **rapidly scale** the BSF farming industry in the UK and overseas. The partners intend to establish the UK as an international centre of excellence for BSF farming and technology. By 2040, we aim to have delivered over 100 sites internationally, create 3300 UK based jobs, generated combined annual revenues of £400m for UK tax paying businesses and delivered savings of **50m tonnes CO2** equivalent \[IBCWG\] - driving us towards the Government's targets for **net zero emissions**.