Other MMH collaboration partner
Boehringer Ingelheim
- Required expertise
- Fundraising strategy, Farming, Technical & Engineering support
- Social impact focus
- Youth empowerment, Nutrition, Agriculture/Farming
- Timeframe
- Individually
- Project location
- On-site
- Project language
- English & German
PROJECT DESCRIPTION
At the Black Soldier Fly (BSF) farm at the Ewaldi Community School in Uganda BSF larvae convert biowaste into compost and become biomass which can be used directly as food for animals raised at the school farm (e.g., pigs, fish, chicken), or can be dried via a solar dryer for later use. The farm animals provide meet for the school kids and upgrade their daily, very simple, vegetarian one-sided diet. The larvae as well as fish, chicks and piglets born at the school farm will be sold to the community to generate additional income for the school that can be invested at the school for maintenance but also for new installations. At the same time, the school kids will learn about the circular bioeconomy process and will act as multiplicators when going back to their home communities.
Project Objectives
- Make an impact on environment and recources by recycling organic waste and chicken manure via Black soldier fly (BSF) larvae
- Substitute soja or silver fish protein by BSF larval biomass used as protein supplemental feed for fish, chicken and pigs
- Develop the BSF farm towards a sustainable business generating additional income for the Ewaldi Community school and implement the circular bioeconomy idea in the school kids becoming multiplicators in their home communities
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