To my knowledge, none. Insects as food or feed are not in such huge demand. So the need for speeding up the production quantity or qualitywise using biotech approaches is not required at this stage.

Dear Mickey

There is a prediction for future that insects can be a source of animal protein, but now the insect used as a food in some countries in small scale.

Please, read in the following links :

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0315546383720122

and:

http://www.wageningenacademic.com/doi/abs/10.3920/JIFF2015.0097

Good Luck

To my understanding, the reason why this topic is not a global agenda is

1. genetic modification for food purpose is more devastating for the fact that organic agriculture farming goes down to the hill which has its own negative implications on the food production. 

2.most infectious diseases use insects as an intermediate or reservoirs and opening a door for insects genetic engineering is another pain in the neck to understand the symbiosis.

3. So far, the world is not demanding that much for insects as source of food  and this will remain unquestionable for undefined time.

4.However, genetically modified honey bees are highly recommended and there is progress on that.

cheers!

Hi, Haven't seen or heard anything about it. Very interesting topic and will be on the agenda sooner than later is my guess. There are several people working on GMO and food at SLU (Project MistraBiotech) that I have talked with about insects as food, but as far as I know, they do not work on anything related to this yet. They do podcasts on GMO and food, but they might be in Swedish https://www.slu.se/shapingourfood_podcast Greetings, Åsa

Hi Åsa. I am myself a part of MISTRA - and know there are no insects-plan, but agree with you that it will come up soon. At least we will begin lookin i to possible ethical issues. all the best Mickey

Ok didn't know that :). Sounds good and interesting!

Here you can find information about this issue:

Edible insects are the future?

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26908196

Nutritional composition and safety aspects of edible insects.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23471778

Review of food composition data for edible insects.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26433285

Assessing the Potential of Insects as Food and Feed in assuring Food Security

http://www.fao.org/docrep/015/an233e/an233e00.pdf

Insect cells for human food

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S073497500600142X

Potential and challenges of insects as an innovative source for food and feed production

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1466856412001452

Thanks. I have worked with insects already Article Ethical aspects of insect production for food and feed

Now I am specifically looking into the use of biotech such as CRISPR to breed insects. So far only little luck. Does not seem to be a widespread idea so far