Ecological Implications of Minilivestock: Potential of Insects, Rodents, Frogs and Sails

1. Minilivestock Environment, Sustainability, and Local Knowledge Disappearance
2. The Minilivestock: Environment, Education, Research, and Economics
3. Potential of Rodents for Minilivestock in Africa
4. Rodent Farming in the Amazon: Experience with Amerindians in Venezuela
5. Frogs as Food
6. Snail Collection and Small-scale Production in Africa and Europe
7. Overview of Role of Edible Insects in Preserving Biodiversity
8. Insects: Food for Human Evolution
9. Minilivestock Consumption in the Ancient Near East: The Case of Locusts
10. Human Consumption of Lepidoptera, Termites, Orthoptera, and Ants in Afric
11. Insects Eaten in Africa (Coleoptera, Hymenoptera, Diptera, Heteroptera, Homoptera)
12. Notes on Edible Insects of South Benin: A Source of Protein
13. Edible Insects in Japan
14. Insects: A Hopeful Food Source
15. Edible Invertebrates among Amazonian Indians: A Critical Review of Disappearing Knowledge
16. Edible Insects in Ecuador
17. Palm ~ o h n(Coleoptera, Curculionidae: Rhynchophorus palmarum) A Traditional Food: Examples from Alto Orinoco, Venezuela
18. Insect and Other Invertebrate Foods of the Australian Aborigines
19. Traditional Food Insects and Spiders in Several Ethnic Groups of Northeast India, Papua New Guinea, Australia, and New Zealand
20. Edible Insects in the Laos PDR, Myanmar, Thailand, and Vietnam
21. Lessons from Traditional Foraging Patterns in West Papua (Indonesia)
22. Contemporary Use of Insects and Other Arthropods in Traditional Korean Medicine (Elanbang)in South Korea and Elsewhere
23. Insects as Traditional Food in China
24. Medicinal Terrestrial Arthropods in China
25. Nutritive Value of Earthworms
26. Pharmaceutical Value and Use of Earthworms
27. House cricket Small-scale Farming
28. Insects in the Human Diet: Nutritional Aspects
29. Hygiene and Health Features of "Minilivestock"

This book provides stimulating and timely suggestions about expanding the world food supply to include a variety of minilivestock. It suggests a wide variety of small animals as nutritious food. These animals include arthropods (insects, earthworms, snails, frogs), and various rodents. The major advantage of minilivestock is that they do not have to be fed on grains thus saving many crop species for human consump-tion. The book suggests technologies for harvesting these small livestock.