Biography
My current work is on the potential environmental, health and socioeconomic impacts of an increased demand for edible insects.
As an undergraduate I studied Biological Anthropology, and one research project I worked on was on insectivory in wild chimpanzees. After graduating I went to Japan on a scholarship from the Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation. I learnt Japanese and developed an interest in insectivory - and insect agriculture - by humans. I spent a further two years in Japan studying this on a MEXT government scholarship at Rikkyo University in Tokyo, and also worked with the BHFCPNP group at the Nuffield Department of Population Health, Oxford University.
Research
I am interested in the potential impacts of the expansion of a (relatively) new type of agriculture - farming insects for human food. It has been claimed that this could greatly reduce the greenhouse gas emissions and the pressure on land use that are currently created by our increasing demand for edible animal-based protein. It has also been claimed that insects as food may have health benefits that rival traditional livestock. Finally, it has been claimed that insect farming has the potential to aid socio-economic mobility. The purpose of my PhD is to address these claims, through a combination of fieldwork and modelling.
Publications
Payne, C. L. R, Evans, J. D. (2017) Nested Houses: Domestication dynamics of human-wasp relations in contemporary rural Japan, Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 13:13
Dunkel F and Payne C L R (2016) Chapter 1. Introduction to edible insects, in: Dossey A T, Morales-Ramos J and Rojas G (Ed.) Insects as a Sustainable Food Ingredient, Elesevier
Payne, C. L., Dobermann, D., Forkes, A., House, J., Josephs, J., McBride, A., ... & Soares, S. (2016). Insects as food and feed: European perspectives on recent research and future priorities. Journal of Insects as Food and Feed.
Payne C L R (2016) Insects as Food and Feed – an interdisciplinary workshop held in Oxford, December 2015, Antenna
Payne, C L R (2015) Perception and Practice of Entomophagy in Central Rural Japan, The Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan, fifth series, volume 7, 139-149
Payne, C L R (2015) The ‘domestication’ of edible insects, Seibutsukagaku (Journal of Biological Sciences) 66(3):166-176 (In Japanese)
Payne, C L R (2015) A report from the first international conference on entomophagy, Seibutsukagaku (Journal of Biological Sciences) 66(3):166-176 (In Japanese)
Payne, C L R and Nonaka, K (2014) Erntefest Auf Japanisch: Wespen als leckerbissen in fernost [Black wasps and giant hornets: A harvest feast in central Japan] Bugs magazin (In German)
Webster, T H, McGrew, W C, Marchant, L F, Payne, C L R, and Hunt, K D (2014) Selective insectivory at Toro-Semliki, Uganda: Comparative analyses suggest no ‘savanna’ chimpanzee pattern Journal of Human Evolution 71:20-27
Scarborough, P, Payne, C L R, Agu, C G, Kaur, A, Mizdrak, A, Rayner, M, Halford, J C G, and Boyland, E (2013) How important is the choice of the nutrient profile model used to regulate broadcast advertising of foods to children? A comparison using a targeted data set, European Journal of Clinical Nutrition (2013) 67, 815–820
McGrew, W C, Marchant, L F, Payne, C L R, Webster, T H, and Hunt, K D (2010). Chimpanzees at Semliki Ignore Oil Palms. Pan Africa News 17(2): 19-21.