Insects that ‘taste like bacon’ could help ease the starvation crisis engulfing Madagascar, a British charity believes.
Back-to-back droughts have left the southern part of the country in a particularly desperate situation.people were eating ‘shoe leather and ash mixed with tamarind’Now the World Food Programme estimates that some 1.64 million people on the Indian Ocean island are ‘food insecure’ and in desperate need of humanitarian assistance.
‘It tastes like a bacon-y peanut’, Lewis Kramer, a conservation research co-ordinator, tells Metro.co.uk.‘I would happily have a bowl of them with a beer.’The insects are ‘quite soft when they have been fried’ Veteran aid workers have said the situation is one of the worst they have ever seen.– have done little to ease the droughts because the ground is so hard that short downpours, rather than consistent rainfall, simply leads to water running off fields.
The charity’s managing director, Mark Jacobs, said: ‘Since February 2021, SEED Madagascar has been responding to the food crisis through the implementation of an emergency food distribution programme.
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