During the study, scientists from Wageningen University looked at trees near Wi-Fi hotspots for a three-month period.
The author of the report, Arjen Wals, UNESCO Chair of Social Learning and Sustainable Development at Wageningen University, The Netherlands, presented the publication.
However, little data are available on the environmental impacts associated with insect production, said researcher Dennis Oonincx at Wageningen University in the Netherlands.
"There is no real sustainable management of forests" in East Africa, said Frans Bongers, a Dutch ecologist at Wageningen University and one of the authors of the study.
Toine Timmermans, from Wageningen University and Research Centre in the Netherlands, described the IME publication as a "relevant report that draws attention to an important issue and topic".
"We showed that it is feasible to really monitor rainfall, to recognise individual showers and how they travel across a country, " said Aart Overeem of Wageningen University and lead author of the study.
To test the idea on a grand scale, researchers at Wageningen University and the Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute acquired the signal strengths from 2, 400 links operated by T-Mobile NL, over two 12-day periods in 2011.
If you are interested in insects as food, contact Alexandre Kournwsky, co-founder of Ambrosia or Wageningen University, which has a four year program designed to produce scientific and business research on the subject.
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It is an adaptation of the English module "Investing in Information for Development" produced by CTA, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), GTZ (an international cooperation enterprise for sustainable development), the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and the University of Wageningen.
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