How do US entomologists contribute to world hunger?

To what extent does the “Western Attitude” affect changes in cultural practices such as food preferences and food availability among “non-Western” cultures, particularly when those foods are insects? Westerners are a small group of humans, about 0.5 billion people, both Europeans and people of European descent, living mainly in the US and Canada. The overall food preferences of Westerners have had immense influence on some non-Western cultures. How do attitudes of Western entomologists’ affect choices about edible insect research and teaching made by grant panels, foundation boards, by professors designing topics to teach the new generation of world leaders, or by senior research scientists deciding on the direction for their research? These effects will be traced in traditional stories from several cultures as well as with data from in-depth interviews as part of a case study in a West African (Malian/Bambara) farming village.