The Comprehensive Utilization of Edible Insects and Fish By-Products in Animal Feeding
A special issue of Animals (ISSN 2076-2615). This special issue belongs to the section "Animal Nutrition".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 November 2024 | Viewed by 763
Special Issue Editors
Interests: animal feeding and nutrition; alternative protein sources; animal food quality and safety; beekeeping; insects for feed; circularity and sustainability; prevision livestock farming; precision beekeeping; in vitro models; agro-environmental contaminants
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: aquaculture; small animal production; animal welfare (aquatic organisms and poultry); biosecurity in animal farming; alternative protein sources; alternative lipid sources; essential oils; circular economy; growth performances; quality of products
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The expected growth of the global population is one of the greatest challenges mankind has to face in the future. This growth is also expected to be paralleled by a steady increase in the demand for high-quality and nutritive animal food products. It is thus pivotal for livestock systems to rely on alternative animal protein sources to remain sustainable in the medium–long term. In this context, animal protein sources such as insects and fish by-products are promising alternatives to conventional ones, especially in circular economy systems which are driven and evaluated by life cycle thinking. New feeding strategies can be applied to transform food waste biomasses and streams, such as insects and fish by-products, into valuable feed materials. This Special Issue aims to gather valuable scientific contributions on this topic, which, being multifaceted by nature, requires a comprehensive view to tackle, as it concerns, for example, dedicated producing systems, animal nutrition, health and welfare issues, circularity, and the social economic and environmental sustainability of feed production based on insects and/or fish by-products, as well as other novel and emerging issues. The submission of ground-breaking research in the form of regular papers, short communications, and systematic reviews is thus invited for this Special Issue.
Dr. Pier Paolo Danieli
Dr. Alessandra Roncarati
Guest Editors
Manuscript Submission Information
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Keywords
- insects for feed
- sustainability
- fish by-products
- socio-economic assessment
- environmental impacts
- food waste management
- circular economy
- antioxidant activity
- growth performances
- quality of products
- valuable compounds
- feed safety
