TBD- VALORIZATION OF DAIRY WASTES

Rajesh Jha is a professor in the Department of Human Nutrition, Food and Animal Sciences at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. His expertise is in animal nutrition and his research specialties include animal gut health and physiology, monogastric animal nutrition programing and modeling, and evaluation of animal feed and feed additives. Prabhat Khanal is an associate professor of sustainable animal nutrition at the Faculty of Bioscience and Aquaculture (FBA), Nord University, Norway. He completed his Master in Agriculture from the Robert H. Smith Faculty of Agriculture, Food, and Environment, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. Later, he obtained his PhD in Nutrition and Physiology from the Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, Department of Veterinary and Animal Science, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. He held the Marie-Curie status Scientific Fellow post-doc position in Nutrition and Lipid droplets at the Department of Nutrition, University of Oslo. His current research focuses on identifying, characterizing, and utilizing novel and alternative sources of feed and food. In particular, he aims to evaluate and characterize a wide range of insect species as a future protein source for animal feed and human food applications. He has published 28 scientific articles and presented at international conferences, seminars, and symposiums. He is also the principal investigator of a collaborative project between Nord University, Norway, Agriculture and Forestry University, Nepal, and Kathmandu University, Nepal: Establishing the Circular Economy-based livestock sector through collaborative Educational and Research activities (CEER) that involves 5 PhD and more than 30 master students. Partha Roy works at the Indian Institute of Technology, India.

• 1. Roles of insects as a protein source for poultry production2. Role of insects as a protein source for pig production3. Can insects be utilized in the ruminant´s diets?4. Challenges of scaling up insects as sustainable and alternative feed resources for production animals5. Automated and cost-efficient production technologies for further production of insects as animal feed6. Use of freshwater plants as a protein source for livestock production7. Can freshwater plants be used as a source of antimicrobials for livestock production?8. Potential nutritional and anti-methanogenic impacts of freshwater plants for ruminant production9. Concerns of heavy metals and critical minerals in freshwater plants as animal feed resources10. Sustainable sourcing, harvesting, and cultivation of freshwater plants for animal feed purposes11. Marine macroalgae as an alternative source of protein for livestock12. Bioactive potential of marine macroalgae in animal feed applications13. An update on anti-methanogenic properties of marine macroalgae for ruminant animals14. Impacts on marine macroalgae species and harvesting seasons on nutritional values and utilization for animal feed applications15. Sustainable models for efficient sourcing, harvesting, and processing of macroalgae16. Fresh water plants and marine macroalgae as sources of micronutrients for livestock feeds17. Environmental and economy sustainability of producing alternative feed resources for production animals