A5087538020- Animal Behavior and Welfare Studies
- Animal Nutrition and Physiology
- Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock
- Effects of Environmental Stressors on Livestock
- Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact
- Environmental Sustainability in Business
- Agricultural Economics and Policy
- Gender, Feminism, and Media
- Social and Cultural Dynamics
- Philosophy and History of Science
- Rural development and sustainability
- Metallurgy and Material Science
- Dutch Social and Cultural Studies
- Environmental Education and Sustainability
- Sustainable Agricultural Systems Analysis
- Economic and Environmental Valuation
- Agriculture and Rural Development Research
- Clinical Reasoning and Diagnostic Skills
- Agriculture and Farm Safety
- Animal Behavior and Reproduction
- Energy, Environment, Agriculture Analysis
- Meat and Animal Product Quality
- Food Waste Reduction and Sustainability
Ghent University
2016-2021
Pakistan Agricultural Research Council
2018
Bioscience (China)
2017
Consumers have increasing, but highly variable, interest in sustainability attributes of food, including ethical aspects, such as animal welfare. We explored market opportunities for animal-friendly cow’s milk based on segmentation (cluster) analysis. Flemish survey participants (n = 787) were clustered 6) their intention to purchase (IP) milk, and evaluation cows’ welfare state (EV). Three opportunity segments derived from clusters labelled “high”, “moderate” “limited”. Only 8% the belong...
The Welfare Quality® consortium has developed and proposed standard protocols for monitoring farm animal welfare. uptake of the dairy cattle protocol been below expectation, however, it criticized variable quality welfare measures a limited number having disproportionally large effect on integrated categorization. Aiming wide by milk industry, we revised simplified into user-friendly tool cost- time-efficient on-farm with minimal key animal-based that are aggregated continuous (and thus...
Abstract The Welfare Quality® (WQ) project developed protocols as international standards for farm animal welfare assessment. For dairy cattle, the WQ protocol may be performed any time during indoor period when herd has no access to pasture. However, timing of assessments might influence outcome, pasture influences many aspects and such effects are likely carry over beginning period. In order test this hypothesis, we assessed ten herds at both end same Assessment resulted in a higher...
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After several years of implementation, the original Welfare Quality scoring model for dairy cows appears to be highly sensitive number and cleanliness drinkers not enough prevalence diseases, as a consequence may fit opinion some animal welfare experts. The present paper aims improve calculations criteria 'Absence prolonged thirst' disease' in cows, so that results are more input data better experts' opinion. First, we modified calculation by linearising drinkers' availability avoid...
Building on previous work about cultural informalisation and the growing urban–rural divide in western democracies, this article studies symbolic boundary as performed by white youths living rural areas Netherlands. We conducted a micro-sociological analysis of how these celebrate regional festivals Netherlands, particularly meanings they attach to their affective displays intoxication sexuality. show distinction is ‘done’ here many taking pride drinking too much beer, sexual directness...