Year: 2023
Location
South AfricaSector
AgricultureStage
Demonstration / Early CommercialisationAmesect is developing a decentralised organic-waste-to-bioproduct system using MAGIC³ on-site processors, enabling black soldier fly larvae production across diverse waste streams under field conditions. The project replaces conventional centralised, factory-farming models of BSF production with a distributed at-source approach, while integrating outputs into a central facility with laboratory-validated chitosan extraction and fractionation to produce protein-based products, insect oil, innovative organic soil enhancers, and pharmaceutical-grade chitosan. This model reduces landfill and emissions, creates jobs across multiple contexts, and demonstrates a scalable, African-led circular economy solution.
Investment Needs
$3 000 000Investment Project Type:
PrivateInvested Value to Date:
$131 256Funding Gap:
$2 998 000Climate Classification:
Mitigation
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