Toward Resilient Aquaculture in Africa: Innovative and Sustainable Aquafeeds Through Alternative Protein Sources DOI Creative Commons
Stanley Iheanacho, Stéphanie Céline Hornburg, Carsten Schulz

et al.

Reviews in Aquaculture, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 17(2)

Published: Feb. 9, 2025

ABSTRACT The aquaculture industry is a significant source of food proteins and other essential nutrients, providing the much‐needed requirements for human nutrition. However, identifying sustainable affordable feed ingredients growing sector remains challenge industry. African sector, in particular, developing discernibly but faces distinct socioeconomic infrastructural challenges. Elevated usage fishmeal financially challenging associated with ecological risks. This review examines potential alternative protein sources growth while addressing challenges, including lack processing technology investments, availability, economic viability, policy regulations, social conflicts, anti‐nutritive substances. Alternative have considerable terms sustainability viability. By‐products from animals could be most promising near future, as they are cost‐effective, available, do not compete humans source. Insect alternatives utilization consumption. Shortfalls technology, infrastructure, targeted investments bottlenecks that must resolved to increase production.

Language: Английский

Toward Resilient Aquaculture in Africa: Innovative and Sustainable Aquafeeds Through Alternative Protein Sources DOI Creative Commons
Stanley Iheanacho, Stéphanie Céline Hornburg, Carsten Schulz

et al.

Reviews in Aquaculture, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 17(2)

Published: Feb. 9, 2025

ABSTRACT The aquaculture industry is a significant source of food proteins and other essential nutrients, providing the much‐needed requirements for human nutrition. However, identifying sustainable affordable feed ingredients growing sector remains challenge industry. African sector, in particular, developing discernibly but faces distinct socioeconomic infrastructural challenges. Elevated usage fishmeal financially challenging associated with ecological risks. This review examines potential alternative protein sources growth while addressing challenges, including lack processing technology investments, availability, economic viability, policy regulations, social conflicts, anti‐nutritive substances. Alternative have considerable terms sustainability viability. By‐products from animals could be most promising near future, as they are cost‐effective, available, do not compete humans source. Insect alternatives utilization consumption. Shortfalls technology, infrastructure, targeted investments bottlenecks that must resolved to increase production.

Language: Английский

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