Projects
Balancing protein nutrition in pigs: A data-driven path to sustainability Ghent University
To effectively minimize nutrient wastage, it's essential to reduce nutrient consumption without hampering animal performance. Precision feeding embodies the current state-of-the-art methodology to accomplish this. Here, nutrient requirements are calculated daily for each individual, and feed composition is adapted to match these requirements. Although precision feeding demonstrates a significant potential to reduce nutrient losses, we foresee ...
Fibre as important macronutrient in carnivore nutrition Ghent University
Evaluation of nutrition strategies involving glutathione precursors on the glutathione redox status and heat stress tolerance in broiler chickens Ghent University
Heat exposure affects broilers production and health on a worldwide basis particularly in the
finisher phase. It triggers several metabolic dysfunctions, including cell death by causing “oxidative
stress”. Therefore this research conducted to evaluate nutritional strategies that involve diet
supplementation with precursors of GSH synthesis (endogenous antioxidant) using N-acetylcysteine,
cysteine to suppress the ...
BOF ZAP human nutrition Ghent University
A professorship granted by the Special Research Fund is a primarily research-oriented position and is made available for excellent researchers with a high-quality research programme.
Insects for Nutrition and Health: Development and Evaluation of Insect-based Complementary Foods for Children in Kenya Ghent University
Interaction between oil palm (Elaeis guineensis Jacq.) progenies and K and Mg mineral nutrition Ghent University
Novel mineral fertilizer matrices for improved microelement nutrition KU Leuven
Impact of Bio-fortified Sweet Potato Adoption on Food and Nutrition Security in Tigray, Ethiopia. Ghent University
In Tigray region of Ethiopia, 80% of the population is poor and malnourished. Bio-fortified sweet potato, the flagship of agriculture-based nutrition interventions, could help to reverse that trend, but its adoption rate is tremendously lower than elsewhere in Ethiopia. This project examines the drivers and impact of its adoption in order to improve food, and nutrition security, and rural development.