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March 2026

Open for Contributions

๐Ÿ“ข Open for Contributions: ASIFF (Academic Society of Insects as Food and Feed) Newsletter #5!
We are excited to announce that we are now accepting contributions for our next newsletter!

๐Ÿ—“ Submission window: March 1-31, 2026

What can you share?
โœ… Research highlights
โœ… Recent research articles
โœ… Event announcements
โœ… Other relevant insights about insects as food and feed
Have an idea? Letโ€™s discuss it!

This is your chance to showcase your work, share knowledge, and stay connected with ASIFF.

๐Ÿ“ง Share your contributions to: info@asiff.org or send us a message on LinkedIn

February 2026

Wat is de Academic Society of Insects as Food and Feed (ASIFF)?

๐Ÿ› Recently, Network for Insect Knowledge (NIK) published an article featuring ASIFF. In this piece, Teun Veldkamp, president of the ASIFF (Academic Society of Insects as Food and Feed), explains what ASIFF is, the role we play in the insect sector, and how we contribute to knowledge sharing, collaboration, and sector development.

๐Ÿ Curious to learn more? Check out the full article (in Dutch):
https://lnkd.in/eVz45axP

January 2026

ASIFF Newsletter #4 is out now!

Available to all ASIFF members on our website: https://asiff.org/resources/asiff-newsletter/

In this issue, you will find:
Event spotlight:
Karol B. Barragรกn-Fonseca on EntoFest 2025 โ€“ Insects in Action: From Research to Sustainable Innovation and Research Center for Terrestrial Arthropods – CINAT

Research highlights
โ€ข A recent book chapter on black soldier fly by Dr. Saleha Mahmood
โ€ข Arthur Thompson de la Cheneliรจre explains his research on black soldier fly larvae diets

Education & outreach
โ€ข Bugs in Mugs 3 (Belgium): engaging students with insect-based foods, highlighted by Matthias Gosselin, PhD, Stรฉphanie Crabeck PhD and Sophie Soens
โ€ข Les insectes : cโ€™est quoi le buzz ? – an event organized by Universitรฉ Laval, shared by Marie-Hรฉlรจne Deschamps

Recipe feature
โ€ข Linh Bao Nguyenโ€™s Cricket Pet Treats, a nutritious, homemade delight for cats and dogs
๐Ÿ› Plus more news and articles from across the ASIFF (Academic Society of Insects as Food and Feed) community

With thanks to our editorial team: Maryia Mishyna and Cassandra Maya

December 2025

Happy new year!

ASIFF congratulates our community on an inspiring year of collaboration and progress in insects as food and feed. We hope the holidays bring you well-deserved rest, plenty of joy, and moments of fun as we head into the New Year together.

December 2025

Great newsโ€”actually, two great news items!

1. Registration for theย Insects to Feed the Worldย conference (IFW 2026) in Turin, Italy is officially open!
Make sure to secure your spot early:ย https://www.ifw2026.org/registration
And remember:ย ASIFF members get a 10% discount! BUT, you have to register with the same email as your ASIFF membership email.ย 

2. We also have an exciting opportunity for our working groups.
Alongside our in-person annual meeting, this conference provides the perfect opportunityย to start building momentum within our working groups. We thus strongly encourage you to submit an abstract connected to our WG themes. If thereโ€™s enough participation, we may even organise a special WG session to showcase your work and spark deeper discussions. While we canโ€™t promise this just yet, weโ€™re ready to coordinate and make it happen if the interest is there.

November 2025

News from ASIFF members

Research is also about outreach and communication!
This week, 3rd edition ofย โ€œBugs in Mugsโ€ event took place that continues to grow in popularity among students every year. The activity took place on theย campus of Haute Ecole Provinciale de Hainaut (HEPH) – Condorcet (Belgium), with financial support from Acadรฉmie de recherche et d’enseignement supรฉrieur – ARES. It is an eventย by students and for students, carried out with the valuable support of the teaching staff.

Highlightsย included:
๐Ÿ”ฌ training workshops led by Walloon companies
๐Ÿงฉ a themed escape game
๐Ÿฝ๏ธ food tests and tastings
๐ŸŽฅ a screening of the filmย Bugs
๐Ÿ—ฃ๏ธ a general presentation on insects
๐Ÿ“ธ content-creation workshops
๐ŸŒย exchanges with partners from Benin

It was a great moment of exchange and learning for students from years 1, 2, and 3 of the Bachelor in Dietetics, centered on an innovative topic: entomophagy. Congratulations to the organizing team: Matthias Gosselin, PhD, Catherine Hans, Sophie Soens, Stรฉphanie Crabeck PhD, Tancredi Severine!

November 2025

News from ASIFF working group

๐‘จ๐‘บ๐‘ฐ๐‘ญ๐‘ญ ๐‘พ๐’๐’“๐’Œ๐’Š๐’๐’ˆ ๐‘ฎ๐’“๐’๐’–๐’‘: ๐‘ฐ๐’๐’”๐’†๐’„๐’• ๐‘ป๐’†๐’„๐’‰๐’๐’๐’๐’๐’ˆ๐’š ๐‘ฐ๐’๐’๐’๐’—๐’‚๐’•๐’Š๐’๐’๐’” ๐’‡๐’๐’“ ๐‘บ๐’–๐’”๐’•๐’‚๐’Š๐’๐’‚๐’ƒ๐’๐’† ๐‘ญ๐’๐’๐’… ๐‘บ๐’š๐’”๐’•๐’†๐’Ž๐’” (๐‘ฐ๐’๐‘ป๐’†๐’„๐’‰๐‘บ๐’–๐’”๐’•๐’‚๐’Š๐’) recently held its meeting on November 13, 2025, under the leadership of Dr. ๐Š๐š๐ฌ๐ก๐ข๐Ÿ ๐ฎ๐ซ ๐‘๐ž๐ก๐ฆ๐š๐ง and co-leader Dr. ๐†๐ข๐š๐œ๐จ๐ฆ๐จ ๐‘๐จ๐ฌ๐ฌ๐ข.

The meeting brought together a diverse group of experts, including: ๐•๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ข ๐Œ๐ฌ๐ก๐š๐ฒ๐ข๐ฌ๐š , ๐ƒ๐ž๐›๐จ๐ซ๐š๐ก ๐€๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ฅ๐ž๐ง๐, ๐€๐ฅ๐ž๐ฃ๐š๐ง๐๐ซ๐จ ๐‚๐จ๐ซ๐จ๐ง๐š ๐Œ๐š๐ซ๐ข๐ฌ๐œ๐š๐ฅ, ๐Œ๐š๐ซ๐ฐ๐š ๐’๐ก๐ฎ๐ฆ๐จ, ๐๐ข๐ซ๐ฎ๐ก ๐ƒ๐ž๐ฆ๐ข๐ฅ๐ž๐ฐ, ๐‰๐ฎ๐ฅ๐ข๐š๐ง๐š ๐•๐ข๐ฅ๐ฅ๐š๐ฌ๐š๐ง๐ญ๐ž, ๐‰๐š๐ฌ๐จ๐ง ๐„๐ฅ๐š๐ญ๐ž, ๐๐ซ๐จ๐š๐œ๐ก๐š ๐‘๐š๐ฌ๐ก๐ข๐๐š, ๐๐š๐๐š ๐ƒ๐ก๐š๐จ๐ฎ๐ข, ๐Œ๐š๐ฃ๐ž๐ž๐ ๐Š๐ก๐š๐ง ๐‘๐ข๐ณ๐ฐ๐š๐ง, ๐๐ซ๐ข๐๐ ๐ž๐ญ ๐€๐ข๐ญ๐จ-๐๐จ๐›๐š๐๐จ๐ข๐ž, ๐‰๐ฎ๐ฅ๐ข๐š๐ง๐š ๐€๐ฆ๐š๐ค๐š ๐”๐ ๐ฐ๐ฎ, ๐Ž๐ฎ๐ฆ๐š๐ข๐ฆ๐š ๐Š๐ก๐จ๐ฎ๐ข๐ฅ๐๐ข, ๐๐ก๐š๐ญ ๐๐ ๐ฎ๐ฒ๐ž๐ง, ๐Œ๐ฎ๐ก๐š๐ฆ๐ฆ๐š๐ ๐‘๐š๐ก๐ž๐ž๐ฅ ๐“๐š๐ซ๐ข๐ช, ๐€๐ฎ๐ ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ญ๐ข๐ง ๐‹๐ฎ๐ง๐š, ๐๐ซ๐ฒ๐œ๐ž ๐Ž๐ฐ๐ž๐ง, ๐‰๐ž๐Ÿ๐Ÿ ๐‘๐จ๐ฌ๐ฌ๐จ๐ฎ๐ฐ, ๐ƒ๐š๐ข๐ฉ๐ข๐ž๐ซ๐จ ๐†๐จ๐ฆ๐ž๐ณ-๐”๐ซ๐ข๐›๐ž, ๐€๐ก๐ฆ๐ž๐ ๐‡๐ž๐ง๐š๐ฐ๐ฒ.

This working group exemplifies the power of ๐œ๐จ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐š๐›๐จ๐ซ๐š๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐š๐œ๐ซ๐จ๐ฌ๐ฌ ๐š๐œ๐š๐๐ž๐ฆ๐ข๐š ๐š๐ง๐ ๐ข๐ง๐๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ญ๐ซ๐ฒ to drive innovation in insect-based sustainable food systems.

November 2025

5th International Symposium on Research and Application of Black Soldier Fly and Microbes (Zhengzhou, China)

The ASIFF roll-up banner and flyer showcased internationally for the very first time. ASIFFโ€™s activities were highlighted by Longyu Zheng,ย Arnold van Huis, Kashif ur Rehman, and Maryia Mishyna during their presentations.

September 2025

Annual ASIFF meeting

On September 10, 2025, the first Annual Meeting of the ASIFF (Academic Society for Insects as Food and Feed) took place, a milestone event advancing research, collaboration, and innovation in the field of edible insects. 36 ASIFF members participated in shaping the societyโ€™s future.