Updates from the Novel Protein for Food and Feed Flagship Project include new results from projects addressing food waste management using black soldier fly larvae and participation in the Global Symposium on Insects for Food, Feed and Food Security in Africa.

This webinar marks a significant milestone in the evolution of the RTF, coinciding with the release of SAI Platform’s newly published methods paper and the outcomes of a collaborative research project with the National Institute for Agricultural Botany (NIAB). 

 

In April 2025, a team from FiBL initiated a partnership with the Virunga Foundation to support sustainable agriculture in North Kivu, in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).

Creative ideas are being sought that will help to raise public awareness of the often overlooked but vital importance of soil. Selected proposals will receive financial support for implementation. Further information about the webinar and the jury members being recruited can be found at the link below.

Carbonyl sulfide (COS) is a gas used to study the carbon cycle because plants absorb it in a similar way as they absorb carbon dioxide. However, to use COS effectively, all sources and sinks must be understood and nowadays there still is an unexplained missing sink in high northern latitudes. Budget calculations of COS in boreal regions typically look at the contribution of forests, but not of wetlands. We measured COS fluxes over a boreal wetland, compared them to COS fluxes measured over a nearby forest and upscaled the fluxes to estimate their contribution to the boreal region and to verify if boreal wetlands can account for the missing sink. With our measurements we show the importance of including boreal wetland COS fluxes in budget calculation