Species : Multiple species

Focusing on biological stimuli: a new framework for environmental enrichment in aquaculture and fisheries fields

Yijie He, Zonghang Zhang, Zhenghao Xiao, Bo Liang, Jiezhang Mo, Boshan Zhu, Wenhua Liu

Published in 2026

Scientific synthesis on environmental enrichment for captive fish. Enrichment enhances fish adaptability and welfare, but its development is hampered by methodological and conceptual limitations. The authors propose new theoretical and practical frameworks to strengthen scientific rigor and guide the design of multisensory enrichment, particularly biotic enrichment, in aquaculture.

Document Types: Scientific review

Animal categories: Fish

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Behavioural adaptations of livestock to environmental stressors: implications for welfare and productivity

Oke OE, Eletu TA, Akosile OA, Fasasi LO, Adeniji OE, Ojedokun MZ, Oni AI

Published in 2025

Synthetic article analyzing behavioral adaptations associated with environmental stressors in livestock and emphasizing the importance of assessment tools and targeted management strategies for the improvement of animal welfare.

Document Types: Scientific review

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

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Provision of a method for the economic valuation of animal welfare benefits suitable for use in policy appraisal

Richard Bennett, Kelvin Balcombe, Heather Maggs

Published in 2025

A new tool developed by the University of Reading that assigns well-being scores (0–100) to farming systems and links them to British households' willingness to pay to improve farming conditions.

Document Types: Scientific paper

Animal categories:Bovines, Ovines, Porcines, Poultry

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The road to reform: in support of a strong revision of animal transport rules

Gabriela Kubikova

Published in 2025

Guidance note on reforming European regulations on the transport of live animals

Document Types: Opinions

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

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A functional framework for a comprehensive study of welfare in fishes

Alvarado Maria Victoria, Cerdá-Reverter Jose Miguel, Espigares Felipe

Published in 2025

Study proposing an integrative framework to assess fish welfare, combining physiological, behavioral and affective measurements that allow users to go beyond traditional approaches that focus  on biological disorders.

Document Types: Scientific review

Animal categories: Fish

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Research and innovation perspectives: poultry welfare in 2050

Shawna L. Weimer, Elena Myhre, Anne-Marie Neeteson-van Nieuwenhoven, Rodolfo Arreaga, Kate Barger, Ruth C. Newberry, Katy J. Tarrant, Gregory S. Fraley

Published in 2025

Open letter, published in Poultry Science, presenting the key findings of global discussions led by the International Poultry Welfare Alliance (IPWA) on the future state of poultry welfare to 2050. Involving more than 200 participants, these discussions included housing and management, positive welfare measures, nutrition, artificial intelligence and the sustainability of production systems.

Document types: Technical Paper

Animal categories: Poultry

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Incorporating Animal Welfare into Cost-Benefit Analysis

Marc David Davidson

Published in 2025

Scientific article presenting a conceptual and theoretical analysis of the appropriate way to integrate animal welfare into cost-benefit analysis while adhering to the principles of positive welfare economics.

Document Types: Scientific paper

Animal categories: All animals

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Human-animal relations in regenerative ranching: implications for animal welfare

Matías Hargreaves-Méndez, Ethan Gordon, Hannah Gosnell, Maria José Hötzel

Published in 2025

A study of regenerative farming in the northwestern United States, highlighting tensions between the relational values expressed by ranchers and certain culturally-rooted practices. It highlights the potential of this model to improve human-animal relationships, provided that animal welfare is explicitly integrated into agricultural decision-making and policies.

Document Types: Scientific paper

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

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Aligning agricultural policy: discrepancies between public and farmer priorities

Nadja El Benni, Robert Finger, Jeanine Ammann, Judith Irek, Antonia Kaiser, Christian Ritzel, Yanbing Wang, Gabriele Mack

Published in 2025

Study comparing the preferences and levels of consensus of non-farmers and farmers on a set of agricultural policy objectives using surveys conducted in Switzerland. Farmers and non-farmers agree on the importance of food production and farm incomes, but non-farmers place more importance on low food prices and agri-environmental objectives than farmers.

Document Types: Scientific review

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

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Willingness to pay for animal welfare across labels, products, consumers, and time

Malte Oehlmann, Irina Dolgopolova, Christina M. Neubig, Jutta Roosen

Published in 2025

Survey of 6,000 German consumers showing that multi-level animal welfare labels allow better product differentiation and greater willingness to pay. The latter varied according to meat type, income and gender, being notably higher for beef and chicken, as well as among women and affluent households.

Document Types: Scientific paper

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

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