ENGARUKA, Tanzania — When the bell rang at midday, students fetched tin bowls and lined up under trees in the schoolyard for scoops of corn and bean porridge.
Not one of them displayed the food fussiness often seen in American school lunch lines.
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Flour made from insects will feed underfed populations
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Mathotine Dz’dai, displaced in DRC: “We’re risking death again”
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