cbcnews | A team of McGill University MBA students has won the $1 million Hult
Prize for a project that aims to improve the availability of nutritious
food to slum dwellers around the world by providing them with
insect-infused flour.
Mohammed Ashour, Shobhita Soor, Jesse Pearlstein, Zev Thompson and
Gabe Mott were presented with the social entrepreneurship award and $1
million in seed capital by former U.S. president Bill Clinton in New
York City Monday evening at the Clinton Global Initiative’s annual
meeting.
The money will help them grow Aspire Food Group, an organization that
will produce nutritious insect-based food products that will be
accessible year-round to some of the world’s poorest city dwellers.
“We are farming insects and we’re grinding them into a fine powder
and then we’re mixing it with locally appropriate flour to create what
we call power flour,” Ashour explained to CBC News.
“It is essentially flour that is fortified with protein and iron obtained from locally appropriate insects.” Fist tap Dale.
