Public and consumer policies for higher welfare food products: Challenges and opportunities

F Vanhonacker, W Verbeke - Journal of agricultural and environmental …, 2014 - Springer
Farm animal welfare in livestock production is a topical and important issue attracting
growing interest of policy makers, consumers, stakeholders in the supply chain and others …

Landscape products for sustainable agricultural landscapes

M García-Martín, L Huntsinger, MJ Ibarrola-Rivas… - Nature Food, 2022 - nature.com
Landscape products link to low-input practices and traditional ecological knowledge, and
have multiple functions supporting human well-being and sustainability. Here we explore …

Understanding the public attitudinal acceptance of digital farming technologies: a nationwide survey in Germany

J Pfeiffer, A Gabriel, M Gandorfer - Agriculture and Human Values, 2021 - Springer
The magnitude of public concerns about agricultural innovations has often been
underestimated, as past examples, such as pesticides, nanotechnology, and cloning …

[HTML][HTML] Digital twinning as an act of governance in the wind energy sector

H Solman, JK Kirkegaard, M Smits, B Van Vliet… - … Science & Policy, 2022 - Elsevier
Digital twins have emerged as novel technology in the wind energy sector that enables the
design, monitoring and prediction of wind turbine performance. Despite growing attention on …

[HTML][HTML] Imagining the ideal dairy farm

CS Cardoso, MJ Hötzel, DM Weary, JA Robbins… - Journal of Dairy …, 2016 - Elsevier
Practices in agriculture can have negative effects on the environment, rural communities,
food safety, and animal welfare. Although disagreements are possible about specific issues …

[HTML][HTML] Citizens' views on the practices of zero-grazing and cow-calf separation in the dairy industry: Does providing information increase acceptability?

MJ Hötzel, CS Cardoso, A Roslindo… - Journal of dairy …, 2017 - Elsevier
The primary aim of this study was to assess the influence of provision of information on lay
citizens' opinions regarding 2 common management practices, zero-grazing and cow-calf …

What difference does a visit make? Changes in animal welfare perceptions after interested citizens tour a dairy farm

BA Ventura, MAG Von Keyserlingk, H Wittman… - PLoS …, 2016 - journals.plos.org
Citizens' concerns about farm animal welfare are often dismissed on the assumption that
they are not well informed about farming practices. We conducted exploratory surveys of …

American and German attitudes towards cow-calf separation on dairy farms

G Busch, DM Weary, A Spiller, MAG von Keyserlingk - PloS one, 2017 - journals.plos.org
Public concerns regarding the quality of life of farm animals are often focused on specific
practices such as separating the cow and calf immediately after birth. The available scientific …

Attitudes of Canadian citizens toward farm animal welfare: A qualitative study

JM Spooner, CA Schuppli, D Fraser - Livestock Science, 2014 - Elsevier
As part of a larger project to determine if there are animal-welfare-related values shared by
some commercial food–animal producers and non-producers in Canada, open-ended, semi …

[HTML][HTML] Consumers' meat commitment and the importance of animal welfare as agricultural policy goal

J Ammann, G Mack, J Irek, R Finger… - Food Quality and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Animal welfare is one of the key agricultural policy goals and is considered extremely
important by consumers. With the increasing urgency for a sustainable and healthy dietary …