Abstract

Food security of any given nation exists when its people, at all times, have physical, social and economic access to sufficient, safe and nutritious food that meets their dietary needs without any restriction or limitation on access to food because the right to food is a well-established principle of international human right. However, agriculture is intensely pressured with the challenge to feed an envisaged (9) nine billion population projected to be on the planet by 2050 while research predicts a considerable pressure on the protein sources in the coming decades. Going by FAO statistics (1990), 1/7th of the world populace are suffering from starvation and 1 billion more people have insufficient in-take of protein. The existing problems of malnutrition and food in-security coupled with rapid population growth and prohibitive nature of animal-based food have necessitated the need to identify and integrate unorthodox protein sources to augment the conventional formulation