Launch of a new open-access information system on animal feed resources

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), in collaboration with the Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA), the Centre de coopération international en recherche agronomique pour le développement (CIRAD) and the Association française de zootechnie (AFZ), has set up Feedipedia - an open access encyclopedia of animal feed resources that provides information on nature, occurrence, distribution, chemical composition, nutritional value and safe use of nearly 1400 livestock feed resources. The main objective is to provide stakeholders with the latest scientific information to help them identify, characterize and properly use feed resources. [...]

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