Key words: Modeling

Human-computer interactions with farm animals-enhancing welfare through precision livestock farming and artificial intelligence

Neethirajan S, Scott S, Mancini C, Boivin X, Strand E.

Published in 2024

Scientific synthesis exploring the potential of animal-computer interactions (ACI) to improve the individual welfare of farm animals, particularly in the context of precision farming and artificial intelligence.

Document Types: Scientific review

Animal categories:Cattle, Pigs, Poultry

Keywords:Animal adaptation to environment, Animal-based measurement, Animal housing, Precision farming, Identification, Welfare indicators, Housing, Modeling, One Welfare, livestock farming systemBehavioral disorders

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Monetizing Animal Welfare Impacts for Benefit-Cost Analysis

Budolfson Mark, Espinosa Romain, Fischer Bob, Treich Nicolas

Published in 2024

Article proposing an analytical tool that sites the impacts of public policy on animal welfare within the same framework as impacts on human welfare, the environment and the economy. This would enable the advantages and disadvantages of public policies to be expressed both globally and more accurately, and would make it possible to compare different impacts. To this end, the authors propose a method for monetizing animal welfare that expresses the intrinsic value of impacts on animal welfare in monetary terms.

Document Types: Scientific review

Animal categories:Cattle, Goats, Equines, Wildlife, Sheep, Pigs, Poultry

Keywords:Biodiversity, Environment, Risk management, Population management, Welfare indicators, Living environment, Modelling, One Welfare,  Livestock farming system, Societal issues.

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A new approach and insights on modelling the impact of production diseases on dairy cow welfare

F. Edwardes, M. van der Voort, T.B. Rodenburg, H. Hogeveen

Published in 2023

Scientific article developing a method that uses information from experts to quantify the perceived impact of sub-optimal mobility on the welfare of dairy cows. The wider objective is to quantify the impact of health disorders on animal welfare, and to detect and treat these disorders as early as possible in order to improve animal welfare.

Document Types: Scientific paper

Animal categories: Bovines

Keywords:Animal-based measurement, Pain, Living environment, Modeling, Human-animal relationship

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Animal welfare as a public good

Romain Espinosa, Nicolas Treich

Published in 2023

Article developing a model of animal consumption based on consumer altruism. According to this model, at the point where the market achieves equilibrium, quality is not  high enough and the quantity of animals whose lives are not worth living is too high.

Document Types: Scientific paper

Animal categories: All animals

Key words:Societal issues, Modeling, One Welfare, Human-animal relationship, livestock farming system

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Volitional activation of remote place representations with a hippocampal brain-machine interface

Chongxi Lai, Shinsuke Tanaka, Timothy D. Harris, Albert K. Lee

Published in 2023

Scientific article on the development of a brain-machine interface to study rats' abilities to voluntarily navigate and direct objects in a virtual reality arena, solely by activating and sustaining appropriate hippocampal representations of remote locations.

Document Types: Scientific paper

Animal categories: Rodents

Keywords:Animal adaptation to environment, Animal-based measurement, Learning, Consciousness, Brain integration, Living environment, Modeling

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Animal board invited review: Quantification of resilience in farm animals

M. Taghipoor, M. Pastell, O. Martin, H. Nguyen Ba, J. van Milgen, A. Doeschl-Wilson, C. Loncke, N.C. Friggens, L. Puillet, R. Muñoz-Tamayo

Published in 2023

Scientific article on the detection and quantification of the responses of farm animals to changes in their environment as a means to classify them individually according to their level of resilience. To this purpose, the authors analyze the use of different modeling approaches to data generation from high-throughput recordings.

Document Types: Scientific paper

Category of animals: Bovines, Caprines, Ovines, Porcines

Keywords:Animal-based measurement, Precision farming, Welfare indicators, Modelling, Resilience, Stress

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Defining common criteria for harmonizing life cycle assessments of livestock systems

Pietro Goglio, Marie Trydeman Knudsen, Klara Van Mierlo, Nina Röhrig, Maxime Fossey, Alberto Maresca, Fatemeh Hashemi, Muhammad Ahmed Waqas, Jenny Yngvesson, Gilles Nassy, Roline Broekema, Simon Moakes, Catherine Pfeifer, Robert Borek, David Yanez-Ruiz, Monica Quevedo Cascante, Alina Syp, Tomasz Zylowsky, Manuel Romero-Huelva, Laurence G. Smith

Published in 2023

Article presenting the results of a participatory harmonization approach to the provision of an evaluation framework for life cycle assessments of current and future livestock systems. It integrates animal welfare and biodiversity into the measurement of the environmental impacts of livestock systems and products.

Document Types: Scientific paper

Animal categories: Bovines, Caprines, Ovines, Porcines, Poultry

Keywords:Biodiversity, Environment, Modeling, One Welfare, Living environment, Societal issues, Welfare indicators

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A method for calculating the external costs of farm animal welfare based on the Welfare Quality® Protocol

Luuk S. M. Vissers, Coen P. A. van Wagenberg, Willy H. M. Baltussen

Published in 2023

This article presents a method to estimate the external costs of farm animal welfare and thereby help decision-making for the development and adoption of more welfare-friendly production systems. It includes  a calculation for the relationship between animal welfare scores and the costs of animal welfare measures on farms. It has been tested and validated on a dairy cattle farm, a pig farm and a poultry farm.

Document Types: Scientific paper

Animal categories: Bovines, Caprines, Ovines, Porcines, Poultry

Key word: Modeling, One Welfare,Societal issues

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Review: The challenge to integrate Animal Welfare indicators into the Life Cycle Assessment

L. Lanzoni, L. Whatford, A. Atzori, M. Chincarini, M. Giammarco, I. Fusaro, G. Vignola

Published in 2023

Scientific literature review of publications that consider the impact of livestock systems on both the environment and animal welfare. It shows that environmental impact assessment using life cycle assessment (LCA) has a much more consistent, standardized and thorough methodology than animal welfare assessments. It concludes that research is needed to integrate animal welfare assessment into LCA.

Document Types: Scientific review

Animal categories: Bovines, Caprines, Equines, Ovines, Fish, Porcines, Poultry

Keywords:Environment, Welfare indicators, Modeling, One Welfare

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Unwilling or Unable? Using 3D tracking to evaluate dogs' reactions to differing human intentions

Christoph J. Völter, Lucrezia Lonardo, Maud G.G.M. Steinmann, Carolina Frizzo Ramos, Karoline Gerwisch, Monique-Theres Schranz, Iris Dobernig, Ludwig Huber

Published in 2022

Scientific paper showing that machine learning can reveal the cognitive capacity in pet dogs to distinguish between unwilling/unable motivational behaviours in humans: analysis based on 3D-tracking through machine learning reveals that dogs distinguish between similar actions (ie not giving them food) on the basis of human intentionality (being unable/not wanting to feed them).

Document Types: Scientific paper

Animal categories:Canine

Keywords:Animal-based measurement, Modeling, Human-animal relationship

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