“Insect farming: recent investment trends and growth projections” by Sagar K Shah, Rethink Priorities

This is a link post. Short summary Publicly disclosed investments of around $2B have flowed into insect farming businesses to date, mostly producers of black soldier fly larvae (59%) and mealworms (36%). But major players accounting for 37% of investment have either failed or are known to be struggling. Annual investment flows into insect farming were growing rapidly prior to 2021, but this trend appears to have stopped. Investor sentiment is low and has been rocked by recent failures. I built a simple model to estimate what paths for future investment flows might mean for future production capacity of dried black soldier fly and mealworm larvae. The median model projection points to production capacity of 221K metric tonnes of dried insects by 2030, less than half of that predicted in an influential 2021 Rabobank report. Despite a more modest production outlook, the median scenario is still consistent with a [...] ---Outline:(00:11) Short summary(01:36) Longer summary(04:25) Selected charts from the reportThe original text contained 5 images which were described by AI. --- First published: December 12th, 2024 Source: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/NuGSfZNxg6DLE6bHz/insect-farming-recent-investment-trends-and-growth --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO. ---Images from the article:Apple Podcasts and Spotify do not show images in the episode description. Try Pocket Casts, or another podcast app.