Antônio Rocha Biscanin-Júnior

Antônio Rocha Biscanin-Júnior is a professor of food science at the Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology in Rondônia, Brazil. He has personal and professional experience with entomophagy, having grown up in the Amazon region where eating insects, such as the local delicacy 'gonga' (coconut larvae), is common. His research highlights the barriers to the commercial production and consumption of edible insects, focusing on legislative, pricing, and psychological factors surrounding societal perceptions of insects as food.