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Utilisation of loss and waste during the food-production cycle as livestock feed

Olaf Thieme A and Harinder P. S. Makkar A B
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A Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO)1, Animal Production and Health Division, 00153 Rome, Italy.

B Corresponding author. Email: Harinder.Makkar@fao.org

Animal Production Science 57(4) 601-607 https://doi.org/10.1071/AN16183
Submitted: 31 March 2016  Accepted: 19 December 2016   Published: 24 February 2017

Abstract

Approximately one-third of the food produced is wasted, which has high environmental, economic and social costs. Besides, it adversely affects food security. A part of such losses and non-food parts of the agricultural products can be safely used as animal feed, without compromising animal product safety and animal and human welfare. FAO organised an e-conference to generate discussion and obtain inputs on definition of food loss in context to their use as animal feed and to identify roles of various stakeholders in the feed production and use chain for converting such waste to worth in the form of animal feed. This review presents a synthesis of the conference proceedings. Future areas of work and way forward have also been discussed.

Additional keywords: animal feed, feed industry, food industry, food loss, food-loss definition, food waste.


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