AFFIA Pte Ltd. Membership
Fees & Benefits 2025
Notes
(1) Definitions of membership types are in annex 1.
(2) The year runs from 1 Sep until 31 Aug. A General Assembly (GA) is organised at the start of each year.
(3) Transfer the fees by bank transfer: transfer costs are to be paid by the member. Please transfer net amount as per your invoice
The fees equivalent in SGD can be calculated using www.xe.com on the day of transfer.
(4) Existing AFFIA members (members before the GA) and NEW members joining before 31 Oct. are eligible for Early Bird Rate (-20% vs. standard fees)
For existing members, if the invoice is not paid by 31 Oct, a new invoice will be sent with Standard annual rate applied.
For NEW members joining before 31 Oct., if invoice is not paid within 60 days, a new invoice will be sent with Standard annual rate applied.
(5) A prorata by months is applied to the standard membership fees for NEW members joining only between 1 Nov and 28 Feb (i.e: if a member registers in January, he will pay the std fees multiplied by (8/12)).
If a new member registers less than 6 months from the next GA (from 1 Mar to 31 Aug), he will be entitled to pay 50% of standard rate fees.
(6) Standard rate is applied to all renewing members who have failed to pay their invoice before 31 Oct and to all new members joining after the 1 Nov.
(7) Representatives of companies that work in AFFIA related activities cannot register as individual members.
(8) Number of employees are calculated on a Full Time Equivalent (FTE) basis.
Join the Future of Insect Industry!
Categories for the associate membership
Definitions
A. Membership types & eligibility
1) Full Member: A “Company” active in the “Direct Insect Sector”, without geographic restriction.
2) Individual Member: A single person, without company or whose company is not eligible for full membership (e.g. a research institute or a university), without geographic restriction.
3) Associate Member: A “Company” whose core activity is not in the “direct Insect sector”, without geographic restriction.
4) Sponsors: Sponsors can be companies, institutions, or individuals that align with AFFIA’s values and objectives. It is however not required to be a member of AFFIA to become a sponsor. Sponsorship amounts and benefits vary and must be determined upon discussion on a case-by-case basis. Contact us for more details.
B. Lexicon
1. “Insect” is to be taken in the narrow biological sense as defined by taxonomy (e.g. snail producers are not eligible to full membership)
2. “Direct insect sector” means the emerging economic sector of “insects as food and as feed”. The sector comprises activities and services that relate to the direct value chain that constitute this emerging sector.
Examples of such “direct insect sector” activities and services are (but are not limited to):
– the production, reproduction, breeding, or selection of insects for food, feed or other applications;
– the production, marketing and selling of food or feed products that utilise insects for food and feed as ingredient;
– the conversion, refining, or processing of insects into products that have commercial application outside the food and feed industry