20/01/14: Grain and Feed Milling Technology - Editor's observations

Professor Paul Davies, vice principal
and professor of agricultural systems,
Royal Agricultural University, UK

Below is an extract from the November/December edition of Grain and Feed Milling Technology magazine, which featured guest editor Professor Paul Davies, vice principal and professor of agricultural systems, Royal Agricultural University, UK

Excellent work by the International Feed Industry Federation (IFIF) - working closely with the UN Food & Agriculture Organisation (FAO) and Codex - during the last decade has ensured that the animal feed industry has become safer, and a n integral part of the global food supply chain so essential to health and well being - not to mention our food security. Many of you know the significant contribuitons to improving animal feed supply and safety made in recent years by such contributors as Andrew Speedy (previously FAO), Roger Gilbert (Perendale Publishers and previously IFIF), Eric Miller (Cambridge University), together with Reg Preston, Ron Leng, Freddy Ib and many others worldwide. All credit to them.

Increasing  demand for meat, milk, eggs and other livestock products continues to drive up global animal populations - not to mention the substantial expansion we are seeing in aquaculture. If available, and if we cn afford to buy them, most of us are consuming more and more of these products. Of course, this growing demand for high value protein foods is being driven most of all by population growth, rising incomes and urbanisation.
Read the full article on page 4 here.