The 2015 Business Benchmark on Farm Animal Welfare Report assesses how 80 of the world’s largest food companies in the food retailer and wholesaler, restaurant and bar, and food producer and manufacturer sectors are managing farm animal welfare. The report concludes that farm animal welfare is...

The Business Benchmark on Farm Animal Welfare: 2013 Report assesses how 70 of the world’s largest food companies in the food retailer and wholesaler, restaurant and bar, and food producer and manufacturer sectors are managing farm animal welfare. The report concludes that farm animal welfare...

This article proposes a tractable approach for analyzing the sources of TFP changes (i.e., technical change, changes in technical and allocative inefficiency, and the scale effect) in a multi-output setting, while retaining the single-equation nature of the econometric procedure used to estimate...

This work addresses the relevance of immigrant communities in a specific agricultural sector, extensive livestock husbandry - pastoralism. This activity provides a primary source of employment and income specifically in inner and remote rural areas, where intensive farming systems are...

The present report reviews literature from throughout the world on methods and results of bioaerosol investigations in and around agricultural livestock farming and summarises the most important points. The global trend towards intensification and industrialisation of animal production, with...