Preface

Abstract

The 1st International Conference on Sustainable Animal Resource and Environment 2021 (ICARE-2021) was organized by the Faculty of Animal Science, Bogor Agricultural University, in collaboration with Animal Scientists Society Indonesia (HILPI). With the theme of “Contribution of Animal Sciences toward Sustainable Development Goals”, this two-day event is aimed to provide scientific platforms for animal science stakeholders (scientists, students, community, government agencies, and industries) to share knowledge and experiences on vast progress in this field. The conference topics address the most recent developments in Animal Sciences by combining plenary and parallel sessions to present the scientific interaction, namely: 1. Sustainable animal genetic resources 2. Smart animal production systems and management 3. Eco-friendly animal feed resources and nutrition 4. Frontier animal product technology 5. Animal welfare, health, and environment ICARE-2021 is inseparable from our previous scientific event of the International Seminar on Animal Industry (ISAI) organized in 2009, 2012, 2015, and 2018. These four series of events were run successfully with wide acceptance by the stakeholders. Hundreds of participants gathered in Bogor for having fruitful knowledge and experiences sharing during the event. ICARE-2021 is a continuation event of ISAI as a part of improving the event with more inclusive topics and addressing the new issues amid the pandemic of COVID-19. Notable, the sustainability of the livestock industry is challenging due to the devastative effects of COVID-19. Decades of modelling pandemics predicted potential consequences, but COVID-19’s impact on the food supply chain, specifically livestock production, was unexpected. Clusters of cases among workers in meat processing plants evolved quickly to affect human, animal, and environmental welfare in several countries. In processing plants, the hygiene focus is on product quality and food safety. Because of their proximity to one another, COVID-19 spread rapidly between workers, and the lack of sick leave and health insurance likely resulted in workers continuing to work when infectious. In the United States, many processing plants shut down when they identified major outbreaks, putting pressure, especially on the pig and poultry industries. A similar issue may also happen in Indonesia and other countries. As such, scientific platforms for discussing this issue are needed. ICARE-2021 is existed to be one of these platforms. ICARE-2021 was run in a hybrid model, in which some of the programs of this event were run virtually, and the other programs were physically in IPB International Convention Center. We believe that this hybrid model is an excellent model to address the issue pertaining to mobile restrictions due to the pandemic. ICARE-2021 featured three keynote speakers from the government agencies (Ministry of Agriculture, Head of National Research and Innovation Agency, and Vice Governor West Sumatra). These three keynote speakers enlighted us with a comprehensive overview of political and strategical issues related to the development of the livestock industry in this country. In addition, ten prominent invited speakers had contributed to this event. They came from various countries, including China, Japan, Malaysia, the Netherland, Germany, Turkey, Australia, South Korea, and Indonesia. Apart from these speakers, there are 104 papers presented by participants during the two-day seminar. The participants come from different countries, including the Netherland, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Sudan. Out of 104 presented papers, 37 full papers were accepted for the publication in this proceeding. List of Committee, Conference Photos are available in the pdf.