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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Mandy McKeesick

All the world loves a larva: the ‘amazing’ maggots at the centre of an agricultural revolution

Winnie Wambui sorts through stacks of coloured plastic crates
Winnie Wambui in her black soldier fly farm in Nairobi, Kenya. Photograph: Mandy McKeesick/The Guardian

In the back streets of Kenya’s capital, Nairobi, where children play football on vacant dirt blocks beside apartment blocks, a concrete building stands behind a wobbly corrugated iron fence. It seems an unlikely place for an agricultural revolution.

The half-built building is flanked by a 10m-long greenhouse and from it emerges Winnie Wambui. The 24-year-old is an engineering student, business owner and entrepreneur – and her crop is black soldier flies.

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