Reuse of Agri-Food By-Products in Animal Nutrition and Their Effects on Livestock Performance and Product Quality
A special issue of Animals (ISSN 2076-2615). This special issue belongs to the section "Animal Nutrition".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 December 2025 | Viewed by 81
Special Issue Editors
Interests: avian production; meat quality; pork meat; sustainable production
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Interests: meat quality; meat products quality; meat shelf life; ruminant and pork performance
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
We are pleased to invite you to contribute to this Special Issue, ‘Reuse of Agri-Food By-Products in Animal Nutrition and Their Effects on Livestock Performance and Product Quality’. This research area is gaining increasing importance as the agri-food sector seeks innovative ways to promote sustainability while addressing the global challenge of food waste. By incorporating by-products into animal diets, producers can enhance resource efficiency, improve production sustainability, and maintain—or even improve—livestock performance and product quality.
This Special Issue aims to explore the novel applications of agri-food by-products in animal feeding strategies. Contributions will align with Animals’ mission to publish cutting-edge research in advancing animal welfare, sustainable production systems, and product quality. Our goal is to provide a comprehensive collection of studies highlighting the nutritional, physiological, and economic effects of by-product utilisation in animal production systems.
In this Special Issue, original research articles and reviews are welcome. Research areas may include (but are not limited to) the following:
- Nutritional characterisation of agri-food by-products;
- Impacts on livestock health and performance;
- Effects on meat, milk, or egg quality;
- Environmental and economic assessments;
- Innovations in by-product processing.
We look forward to receiving your contributions.
Dr. Ainhoa Sarmiento-García
Dr. Ceferina Vieira Aller
Guest Editors
Manuscript Submission Information
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Keywords
- agri-food by-products
- animal nutrition
- livestock performance
- product quality
- sustainability
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