The Welfare Quality� project and beyond: Safeguarding farm animal well-being
Acta Agriculturae Scand Section A, 2010•Taylor & Francis
Welfare Quality� was the largest ever European research project on animal welfare. Here,
we briefly describe some major achievements of Welfare Quality� and identify future
research priorities, potential strategies and organisational structures to build on the
outcomes. Achievements include: definition of principles and criteria of good welfare;
development of standardised, primarily animal-based measures for each welfare criterion
and their integration in an overall assessment model. Since Welfare Quality� could not�…
we briefly describe some major achievements of Welfare Quality� and identify future
research priorities, potential strategies and organisational structures to build on the
outcomes. Achievements include: definition of principles and criteria of good welfare;
development of standardised, primarily animal-based measures for each welfare criterion
and their integration in an overall assessment model. Since Welfare Quality� could not�…
Abstract
Welfare Quality� was the largest ever European research project on animal welfare. Here, we briefly describe some major achievements of Welfare Quality� and identify future research priorities, potential strategies and organisational structures to build on the outcomes. Achievements include: definition of principles and criteria of good welfare; development of standardised, primarily animal-based measures for each welfare criterion and their integration in an overall assessment model.
Since Welfare Quality� could not answer all the questions we recommend:
- Continued development and refinement of the assessment systems and extension to new species.
- The development of automatic measures of welfare to reduce the duration of the assessment while still retaining its holistic nature.
- Exploration of potential implementation strategies across food chain actors.
- Establishment of an independent body to manage and update the assessment and information systems, support their implementation and inform and engage stakeholders.
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