The Economics of Farm Animal Welfare

Preface
Foreword
1: Farm Animal Welfare: Origins, and Interplay with Economics and Policy
2: Farm Animal Welfare: Do Free Markets Fail to Provide It?
3: Consumer Demand for Animal Welfare Products
4: People’s Preferences in Relation to Animal Welfare
5: Animal Welfare and Farm Economics: An Analysis of Costs and Benefits
6: Poultry Breeding for Sustainability and Welfare
7: EU Regulations and the Current Position of Animal Welfare
8: Animal Welfare Measures and the WTO Post EC-Seal Products Case: A Renewed Debate and Research Agenda
9: Farm Animal Welfare Future

Bouda Vosough Ahmadi

Dr. Bouda Vosough Ahmadi is a veterinarian and animal-health and welfare economist currently working at the European Commission for the Control of Foot-and-Mouth Disease (EuFMD) of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in Rome. His main research focus is on agricultural policies and economics and policies of animal-health and animal welfare. He currently leads socioeconomic impact assessment studies of livestock diseases at EuFMD/FAO.

Dominic Moran

Dominic Moran is Professor of Agricultural and Resource Economics at the University of Edinburgh. Previously he worked for a period of 18 years at Scotland’s Rural College (SRUC), prior to which he was a government economist and in private consulting. His research focuses on applying economics to environmental management and the development of interdisciplinary approaches to resource allocation problems in agriculture and global food security. Most recently, his work has focused on the challenges of reducing greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture and food supply chains, and the problem of antimicrobial use and resistance in agriculture. Dominic has worked in over 30 countries and has published more than 100 refereed journal papers. He has been in continuous receipt of funding from the EU, ESRC, NERC or BBSRC since 2000 for his research on climate change and agriculture, and has supervised 20 PhD students.

Rick D'Eath

Dr. Rick D’Eath is a Reader in Animal Behavior and Welfare at Scotland’s Rural College (SRUC). As an applied ethologist working on farm animals, his main research interests involve understanding how the farmed environment can modify and sometimes frustrate an animals’ motivated behaviors often leading to animal welfare problems. Rick primarily works on pigs and poultry, with a particular focus on questions around feeding and hunger, and interactions between animals which are negative for their welfare, including aggression, tail-biting and mounting.