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Biofuel co-products as livestock feed - Opportunities and challenges

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523Contributing authorsSouheila Abbeddou recently <strong>co</strong>mpleted her PhD in animal nutrition in the Institute of Animal Sciences, ETH, Zurich,Switzerl<strong>and</strong>. Her work during the four years w<strong>as</strong> related to animal nutrition in dry are<strong>as</strong>, <strong>and</strong> the use of underutilized by<strong>products</strong><strong>and</strong> forages in animal <strong>feed</strong>ing. She h<strong>as</strong> <strong>co</strong>llaborated on articles related to cl<strong>as</strong>sical animal nutrition, milk quality<strong>and</strong> nutrient cycling in the animal-plant-soil system. Her M<strong>as</strong>ter in Food Quality <strong>and</strong> Chemistry of Natural Products degreefocused on the valorization of agro-industrial by-<strong>products</strong> <strong>as</strong> a source of phytochemicals for oil quality improvement <strong>and</strong>potential human health benefit.Abdul Razak Alimon is Professor in Animal Nutrition at the Department of Animal Science, Faculty of Agriculture,Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM). He obtained his PhD in animal nutrition from University of Reading, UK. With more than20 years of experience in teaching <strong>and</strong> research, his current interest is the utilization of by-<strong>products</strong>, especially ligno cellulosematerials, <strong>as</strong> animal <strong>feed</strong>. He h<strong>as</strong> a number of publications on palm kernel cake, rice straw <strong>and</strong> other by-<strong>products</strong>, with anemph<strong>as</strong>is on how to improve their nutritive value through chemical <strong>and</strong> fungal treatments.S. An<strong>and</strong>an is a Senior Scientist at the National Institute of Animal Nutrition <strong>and</strong> Physiology, Bangalore, India. He h<strong>as</strong> aPhD in Animal Nutrition <strong>and</strong> his research interests are <strong>as</strong>sessment of <strong>feed</strong> resources, <strong>feed</strong> informatics <strong>and</strong> utilization ofun<strong>co</strong>nventional <strong>feed</strong> resources. He h<strong>as</strong> seventeen years of experience in animal nutrition research <strong>and</strong> h<strong>as</strong> several publicationsin the are<strong>as</strong> of <strong>feed</strong> <strong>as</strong>sessment, food <strong>feed</strong> crops <strong>and</strong> utilization of un<strong>co</strong>nventional <strong>feed</strong> resources. He h<strong>as</strong> also workedfor international organizations for two years in the area of food <strong>feed</strong> crops, <strong>and</strong> participated in the FAO Expert Meetingon Feed Assessment.A. Ashok Kumar is a Senior Scientist with the Dryl<strong>and</strong> Cereals Research Program at ICRISAT, working in the are<strong>as</strong> of sorghumbiofortification, biotic stress tolerance <strong>and</strong> sweet sorghum value chain development.G. B<strong>as</strong>avaraj is a Special Project Scientist in the Dryl<strong>and</strong> Cereals Research Program of ICRISAT, <strong>and</strong> is working on e<strong>co</strong>nomicsof sweet sorghum for ethanol production <strong>and</strong> <strong>as</strong>sociated value chain analysis.Klaus Becker obtained a dual Diplome degree in animal physiology <strong>and</strong> animal nutrition in 1974, <strong>and</strong> his PhD in 1976 fromUniversity of Göttingen, Germany. In 1985, Dr Becker w<strong>as</strong> made a full Professor <strong>and</strong> Head of the Department of AnimalNutrition in the Tropics <strong>and</strong> Subtropics, University of Hohenheim. His specific scientific interests focus on b<strong>as</strong>ic <strong>and</strong> appliedfish energetics nutrition, <strong>as</strong> well <strong>as</strong> research on the use of low quality forages <strong>and</strong> by-<strong>products</strong> <strong>as</strong> <strong>feed</strong>s for ruminants. Inaddition, he h<strong>as</strong> been <strong>co</strong>nducting research on renewable energy resources in the tropics <strong>and</strong> subtropics with an emph<strong>as</strong>ison Jatropha since 1995. In 2005 he founded the <strong>co</strong>nsulting <strong>co</strong>mpany JatroSolutions, where he acts <strong>as</strong> General Manager.Dr Becker h<strong>as</strong> authored or <strong>co</strong>-authored over 400 refereed research papers <strong>and</strong> 11 book chapters. To date he h<strong>as</strong> served <strong>as</strong>mentor for 40 doctoral students <strong>and</strong> over 50 c<strong>and</strong>idates for Diplome <strong>and</strong> M<strong>as</strong>ters degrees.Donald C. Beitz is a professor in the Departments of Animal Science <strong>and</strong> of Biochemistry, Biophysics <strong>and</strong> Molecular Biologyat Iowa State University in Ames, Iowa, USA. He earned BS (Agricultural Science) <strong>and</strong> MS (Dairy Science) degrees from theUniversity of Illinois-Urbana, <strong>and</strong> a PhD (Dairy nutrition <strong>and</strong> biochemistry) degree from Michigan State University. He teachesbiochemistry cl<strong>as</strong>ses at Iowa State University. Research activities have focused on topics of nutritional biochemistry such <strong>as</strong>dietary <strong>and</strong> genetic <strong>co</strong>ntrol of body <strong>and</strong> fatty acid <strong>co</strong>mposition of food animals; prevention <strong>and</strong> treatment of milk fever,fatty liver/ketosis <strong>and</strong> Johne’s dise<strong>as</strong>e in dairy cattle; use of maize <strong>co</strong>-<strong>products</strong> by ruminants; role of mitochondrial DNA inmilk production; <strong>and</strong> vitamin D <strong>and</strong> beef tenderness.M. Blümmel is a Principal Scientist in the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), working in the are<strong>as</strong> of crop<strong>livestock</strong>systems, <strong>feed</strong> <strong>and</strong> fodder research <strong>and</strong> quality <strong>as</strong>sessment.

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