Alternative Protein Sources for Animal Feeds
A special issue of Animals (ISSN 2076-2615). This special issue belongs to the section "Animal Nutrition".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 September 2025 | Viewed by 677
Special Issue Editor
Interests: finfish nutrition; alternative proteins; soybean meal; nutritional programming; epigenetics; gut inflammation; early development stages
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Around 733 million people faced undernourishment in 2023, an equivalent of one in eleven people worldwide and one in five in Africa. The world is facing an unprecedented hunger crisis, and it is falling significantly short of achieving the Sustainable Development Goal 2 that focuses on ending hunger, achieving food security and improved nutrition. Poverty, inequality, conflicts, and in recent years climate change have been the leading causes of severe food disasters. Climate change dramatically alters biodiversity, agricultural production, and global food security and its alleviation is essential to fulfill the future food demands of continuously expanding human population.
For food production to increase in a sustainable manner to meet the increasing global demand for protein, adjustments to the current farming practices must be made to accommodate the changing climate. We therefore welcome leading scientists working in the field of sustainable agriculture to submit their original research or review papers to this Special Issue. In particular, topics such as the use of alternative protein sources, impacts on animal digestibility, growth performance, health, product quality, consumer perception and acceptance, alternative feeding approaches, sustainable production
Dr. Karolina Kwasek
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- aquaculture
- livestock nutrition
- alternative proteins
- nutritional programming
- epigenetics
- animal health
- environmental sustainability
- climate change
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