Impact of Feeding Strategies on the Quality of Livestock and Poultry Products
A special issue of Agriculture (ISSN 2077-0472). This special issue belongs to the section "Farm Animal Production".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 10 August 2026 | Viewed by 243
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Interests: nutrition; animal productions; animal husbandry; feed and food quality; developing novel food
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Interests: animal anatomy; histology and physiology; animal nutrition; food quality and safety
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Meeting the high demand for livestock products requires efficient management of production systems and, implicitly, the use of appropriate nutritional strategies that lead to increased and good quality production. Livestock products must not only be sources of nutrients but also sources of bioactive substances that contribute to maintaining the optimal health of consumers. Given that animal nutrition plays a key role in their production, I believe that it is important to adopt new strategies in animal nutrition to meet demand but also to ensure a sustainable balance between productivity, quality of livestock products, human safety and environmental sustainability. Currently, there is a high interest among researchers in improving the quality of livestock products; improving animal health and welfare; identifying new sources of animal feed; finding optimal nutritional solutions in the context of climate change and reducing the impact of animals on environmental pollution.
This Special Issue aims to present and disseminate the most recent advances related to interdisciplinary studies on livestock management strategies, farm animal nutrition, feeding and production technologies under normal and extreme physiology, biology, biochemistry, environmental and behavioral conditions. We consider contributions addressing a wide range of research in the livestock field, on strategies for the correct management of farm activities; the quality of productions obtained, animal welfare and health; the quality of feed raw materials and the optimization of animal production processes. This issue aims to provide applicable and transferable scientific and technical solutions, designed to improve the performance level and the degree of sustainability of livestock farms by applying the principles of circular agroeconomics, in order to obtain safe and quality animal products, adapted to the consumer with a modern lifestyle.
Topics of interest for publication include, but are not limited to, the following:
Impact of animal nutrition and feeding on the quality of animal products
Ruminants’ nutrition and impact on their products quality
Monogastric nutrition and impact on their product quality
Feed additives as strategic levers in producing high quality food
Sustainable feeding strategies
Usage of alternative feedstuffs in a sustainable manner
Nutritional optimization, cost and environment oriented
Circular bioeconomy principles in animal nutrition
Nutritional and feeding strategies for a sustainable environment
Tuning of designer foods quality via animal feeding strategies
Producing sanogenic foods using trustworthy animal nutrition principles
Prof. Dr. Daniel Simeanu
Prof. Dr. Razvan Mihail Radu-Rusu
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- animal nutrition
- animal feeding
- feed additives
- nutrition and health
- livestock and poultry farm management
- animal welfare
- quality of animal products
- sustainability in animal husbandry
- production technologies
- control of animal production
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