Innovative Approaches in Animal Nutrition and Feed Additives: Enhancing Productivity and Product Quality

Dear Colleagues,

Animal nutrition is moving in a transformative direction worldwide, driven by the urgent need for sustainability, efficiency, and premium-quality animal products, while  optimizing animal health and welfare. This evolution accelerates the advancement of cutting-edge nutritional strategies and next-generation feed additives designed to set new standards in modern animal agriculture.

The purpose of this topic is to explore how innovative nutritional strategies—while emphasizing the critical dynamics between farm animals and humans for more ethical and sustainable farming—can optimize growth performance, elevate product quality (such as that of meat, milk, and eggs), and significantly reduce the environmental impact of animal production. This thematic area highlights the shift from traditional feeding practices towards precision nutrition, functional feed ingredient utilization in animal nutrition, bioactive compounds, probiotics, prebiotics, enzymes, and phytogenic additives. Moreover, attention must be paid to the role of nutrition in supporting animal welfare, resilience to stressors (such as heat stress and disease challenges), and the modulation of the microbiome. This topic encourages interdisciplinary research linking nutrition, physiology, microbiology, sustainability, and animal behaviour providing a platform for innovative solutions that meet the evolving needs of animal production systems and consumer expectations for healthier, more sustainable animal products.

Dr. Gabriela Maria Cornescu
Dr. Anca Gheorghe
Dr. Tatiana Dumitra Panaite
Guest Editors

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