Current organic agriculture performs well in several sustainability domains, like animal
welfare, farm profitability and low pesticide use, but yields are commonly lower than in …

The growing human population, changing dietary habits and intensifying competition
between food and feed production underline the urgent need to explore novel sustainable …

This paper advances scholarship on deliberate destabilisation for sustainability transitions.
To understand how deliberate destabilisation plays out in practice, the politics of such …

The relationship between nutrition and welfare is usually considered to be a direct result of
supplying the hen with adequate quantities of feed and water. This simple notion of freedom …

This study investigated the protective effects of an on‐farm management package designed
to reduce injurious pecking (IP) in loose‐housed laying hens. A systematic review of …

Simple Summary The loss of biodiversity is a matter of great concern worldwide. In the
agricultural sector, the industrialization of livestock farming and the wide-spread use of …

Severe feather-pecking (SFP), a particularly injurious behaviour in laying hens (Gallus
gallus domesticus), is thought to be negatively correlated with range use in free-range …

To date, assessment of animal welfare impacts remains largely unconsidered in life cycle
assessment (LCA). Two previous attempts have been made to integrate animal welfare …

The objective of this study was to monitor establishment and development of gastrointestinal
helminth infections in chickens over two production years (PY) on a free-range farm in Lower …

Feather-pecking and cannibalism may reduce the potential of organic husbandry to
enhance the welfare of laying hens. We report risk factors for these issues based on a large …