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Worldwide, 86% of feeds used for livestock animal productions are not edible to humans and thus not competing with food. This is part of the conclusions of a study by Mottet et al., 2017
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 Moringa (Moringa oleifera Lam.) is a multipurpose tropical tree. It is mainly... Read more |
 African locust bean (Parkia biglobosa (Jacq.) G.Don and Parkia filicoidea ... Read more |
 Guanacaste (Enterolobium cyclocarpum (Jacq.) Griseb.) is a fast growing forage... Read more |
 The mango tree (Mangifera indica L.) is primarily cultivated for its edible... Read more |
 Sugarbeet pulp is the fibrous, energy rich by-product resulting from the water extraction... Read more |
 Cottonseed meal is the by-product of oil extraction from cotton seeds. As a protein-rich... Read more |
 Brewers yeast is a by-product from the breweries, which use the micro-organism and fungal... Read more |
 Sunn hemp (Crotalaria juncea L.) is a multipurpose tropical and subtropical... Read more |
 Faba bean (Vicia faba L.) is a legume crop grown primarily for its edible seeds... Read more |
 The honey locust (Gleditsia triacanthos L.) is a legume tree up to 25-45 m high... Read more |
 Apple pomace (Malus domestica Borkh.) is the solid residue that remains after... Read more |
 The sugarcane plant (Saccharum officinarum) is primarily cultivated for sugar... Read more |
 Corn gluten meal is a by-product of the manufacture of maize starch (and sometimes... Read more |
 Peanut meal is the by-product obtained after the extraction of oil from peanut seeds (... Read more |
 Linseed meal is the by-product of oil production from linseeds (Linum usitatissimum... Read more |
 Sugarbeet pulp is the fibrous, energy rich by-product resulting from the water extraction... Read more |
 Subclover (Trifolium subterraneum L.) is a much valued annual legume forage used... Read more |
 Rapeseed meal, called canola meal in North America, Australia and some other countries,... Read more |
 Spotted brachiaria (Brachiaria nigropedata (Munro ex Ficalho & Hiern) Stapf... Read more |
 Samoan clover (Desmodium scorpiurus (Sw.) Desv.) is a vigorous perennial... Read more |
 Purple vetch (Vicia benghalensis L.) is a climbing herbaceous legume from the... Read more |
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USDA Food Composition Databases
- USDA, 2018. USDA - ARS - Nutrient Data Laboratory
This website allows you to search the USDA Food Composition Databases: USDA National Nutrient Database and USDA Branded Food Products Database. You can search the database by food item, food group, or manufacturer's name to find the nutrient information for your food items. You can also generate lists of foods sorted by nutrient content.
This document presents an inventory and balance of feeds available in Ethiopia so that the country can be aware of its needs, resource availability, gaps, implications and how the gap can be filled within the country. This will make feed interventions in the country effective in the immediate, medium and long term as well as provide solutions for replication in the region.
The livestock sector can play a key role in addressing, directly or indirectly, sustainable development goals (SDGs). While, for decades, the livestock debate has focused on how to increase production in a sustainable manner, the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development has added a new and broader dimension to the debate. It has shifted the emphasis of the conversation from fostering sustainable production per se, to enhancing the sector’s contribution to the achievement of the SDGs.
