A5071050815- Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact
- Animal Behavior and Welfare Studies
- Animal Disease Management and Epidemiology
- Economic and Environmental Valuation
- Animal Virus Infections Studies
- Organic Food and Agriculture
Johann Heinrich von Thünen-Institut
2024
Industry stakeholder requests for improved animal welfare practices in German meat production have steadily increased recent years. A transformation of husbandry systems would almost certainly result higher costs. Against this background, producers and the industry are concerned about losing their international competitiveness while implementing practices. As South Korea is an established trading partner Germany, objective explorative study to assess Korean market trends with a special focus...
Livestock husbandry systems are controversially discussed in society, politics and science. Since exporting countries such as Germany, the Netherlands or Denmark produce pork under higher animal welfare standards, question arises if it will be competitive on international market. We used a factor cluster analysis to identify consumer segments Japan, South Korea, Italy Poland determine instruments necessary make more popular. Each study country revealed three groups: One group is interested...
Social acceptance of livestock farming has been declining in recent years. Especially the husbandry conditions pigs are controversially discussed society, industry and politics. We conducted an exploratory cross-national study (Poland, Italy, Japan South Korea) to provide insights into consumer attitudes, preferences possible willingness pay for pork, considering influence importance pork purchasing criteria, country origin animal welfare. Five online focus groups took place each were...
As in the general public discourse, development of various global meat markets 2022 was dominated by energy crisis and resulting cost increases. In addition, epidemics such as African swine fever (ASF) avian influenza continued to influence market developments. Global beef well poultry production grew only marginally 2022. This offset strong demand, so also characterized high international price levels overall. Despite weakening demand for pork - particularly from Chinese importers became...