Published in 2024
Scientific article showing that heat stress generated by intense heat waves increases activity in dairy cows and compromises milk production, resting time and milk quality.
Document Types: Scientific paper
Animal categories: Bovines
Keywords:Adaptation of the animal to the environment, Welfare indicators, Lactation, Robustness, Stress
Published in 2024
Article describing the environmental challenges of livestock farming, along with its impact on animal welfare and global health. The article underlines the need for farming practices to evolve, with animal health and welfare as key contributors to the sustainability of livestock farming.
Document types: Regulation/Certification
Animal categories:Cattle, Goats, Equines, Sheep, Fish, Pigs, Ruminants, Poultry
Keywords:Biodiversity, Societal issues, Environment, Population management, One Welfare, Pollution, livestock farming system
Published in 2024
Scientific article explaining the risks of conflating the concept of animal welfare with that of sustainable farming.Linking them can blur their differences and may result in misguided agricultural political decision-making.
Document Types: Scientific review
Animal categories:Cattle, Goats, Equines, Sheep, Fish, Pigs, Ruminants, Poultry
Keywords: Environment, One Welfare, Pollution,Societal issues, livestock farming system
Published in 2024
FAO prospective study on livestock-related greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, which are likely to increase as a result of growing global demand for animal products. The study assesses the GHG emission reduction potential of various livestock farming techniques.
Document types: Technical Paper
Animal categories: All animals
Keywords:Environment, Pollution
Published in 2022
Book offering a comprehensive review of animal welfare and the law. It explores the biological basis for the consideration of animals within a moral framework and traces changes in how we conceptualize animal welfare. It takes a detailed look at the welfare issues associated with many different uses of animals. It includes recent issues such as climate change, pandemics and antimicrobial resistance.
Document Types: Scientific work
Animal categories:Cattle, Goats, All animals
Keywords:Adaptation of the animal to the environment, Animal-based measurements, Consciousness, Pain, Societal issues, Enrichment, Environment, Euthanasia, Brain integration, Living environment, Human-animal relationships, Stress, Livestock farming system, Transport
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, Modelling, One Welfare
Published in 2023
Scientific review proposing a new conceptual framework it calls the circular welfare economy (CWE), intended to facilitate the transition to sustainable agriculture. The CWE applies the notion of circularity to welfare, defined as the quality of life as it is perceived by the individual animal itself. It also considers human integrity, defined as openness and honesty, to be a prerequisite for sustainability.
Document Types: Scientific review
Animal categories: Bovines, Caprines, Equines, Ovines, Fish, Porcines, Poultry
Keywords: Environment, One Welfare, Human-animal relationships,Societal issues
Published in 2023
CIWF report promoting greater consideration of farmed fish welfare and sustainable production of aquatic species at the bottom of the food chain in extensive systems to ensure the sustainability of European aquaculture.
Document Types: Opinions
Animal categories:Molluscs, Fish
Keywords:Biodiversity, Societal issues, Environment, Population management, Living environment, Human-animal relationships, Resilience
Published in 2022
Opinion piece examining 5 case studies in the aquaculture sector to arrive at a view on how best to reconcile environmental protection and animal-welfare objectives in practice.
Document Types: Scientific paper
Animal categories: Fish
Keywords: Environment, Living environment, Livestock farming system,Societal issues
Published in 2022
Opinion containing, in particular, proposals on animal welfare: farming systems to be displayed on environmental labels; public aid and subsidies to be progressively adjusted in favour of production methods that support the environment, nutritional quality and animal welfare; implementation at European level of measures to protect agricultural and food products from competition from imported products that do not comply with European standards to be defended.
Document Types: Opinions
Animal categories:Cattle, Goats, Sheep, Fish, Pigs, Poultry
Keywords: Societal issues, Livestock farming system
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