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Role of livestock in circular bioeconomy systems

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posted on 2025-10-22, 19:50 authored by Tim A. McAllister, Philippe Becquet, Barbara Amon, LEAP Technical Advisory Group, Michael Lee
<p dir="ltr"><b>Implications</b></p><ul><li>A circular bioeconomy integrates both bioeconomy principles and circular principles to create sustainable, low-impact solutions that ensure efficient use of biological resources.</li><li>Livestock play an important role in a circular bioeconomy as they enable the upcycling of agricultural products unsuitable for consumption by humans into nutritionally rich animal-sourced foods, and their excrements serve as valuable organic fertilizer.</li><li>Understanding positive and negative environmental impacts of livestock production systems is the key to establishing a sustainable circular bioeconomy.</li></ul><p></p>

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2025-09-19

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  • English

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Publisher

Oxford University Press

Journal title

Animal Frontiers

ISSN

2160-6064

Volume/issue number

15(4)

Page numbers

7–15

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