Placeholder. The French government is directly funding a research partnership between an insect-protein company and a university insect-biology institute specifically to solve the remaining scientific barriers standing between black soldier fly farming and true industrial scale — a rare case of a national government treating an alternative pet-food protein as strategic enough to warrant direct public investment.
What we've found so far: The FrenchFly project pairs Innovafeed's industrial black soldier fly production with the University of Tours/CNRS-affiliated IRBI institute, funded through France's France 2030 national investment plan via the Bpifrance I-Demo program.
Open research: Get the actual funding amount and project timeline from Bpifrance directly; check whether any other country's government has made a comparable direct investment in alternative pet-food protein research.