Design thinking and experimental designing for precision nutrition application in dairy cattle¿s methane mitigation Design thinking y diseño experimental para la aplicación de nutrición de precisión en la mitigación de metano en ganado lechero Academic Article in Scopus uri icon

abstract

  • The livestock industry is responsible for approximately 14% of the world¿s total greenhouse gas emissions (Aguilar-Marin et al., 2020). Within the ruminant organism enteric fermentation is the main methane creation process, producing around 86-116 million metric tons of methane per year (Chang et al., 2019; Palangi & Lackner, 2022). The diet and the ruminant microbial community are critical factors in reducing this production, especially in dairy cows. Therefore, integrating precision nutrition approaches, supported by nutrigenomics, chronobiology and microbiota of the same organism, with design thinking and design of experiments, trigger understanding and determine the changes needed in the ruminant¿s diet to mitigate carbon emissions, while maintaining a flexible outlook for unexpected changes, and generating creativity and innovation in solving the problems involved in methane production within ruminant organisms. The present contribution describes the solution to the defined problem. © 2024 by the authors.

publication date

  • January 1, 2024