The relevance of the study is determined by the need to analyze the consequences of the con-centration of livestock farms, not only from an economic point of view, but also from an eco-logical one. The objective of the research is to develop pathways of sustainable development of animal...

Assessment of the impact of a climate adaptation project (TWENDE) on resilience, incomes and livestock units of pastoral communities used quasi-experimental methods. Specifically, the study employed propensity score matching (PSM) and difference-in-differences (DiD) analyses in Stata 17...

Purpose: Islamic concept of food consumption for human beings is derived from the term Tayyib which depicts both food safety and quality. Unlike the humans, though animals are not bound to any code of practice, yet with reference to the food animals their diet seeks the attention of Islamic...

We model interhousehold transfers between nomadic livestock herders as the state-dependent consequence of individuals' strategic interdependence resulting from the existence of multiple, opposing externalities. A public good security externality among individuals sharing a social (e.g., ethnic)...

There has been enormous growth in the Australian market for free range egg, pork and chicken meat products and significant contention over the use of terms such as "free range", "free to roam", "bred free range" and "sow stall free". This chapter critically examines the degree to which free...

Ranch and livestock sector impacts are estimated for a 10% reduction in grazing on federal lands in the West to protect threatened and endangered species. Two sets of species are considered. One set targets species listed due to grazing and the other targets species whose recovery plans include...

This case describes New Zealand dairy farmer-owned Livestock Improvement Corporation (LIC), which evolved from an organized routine Herd Testing Service initiated by New Zealand farmers in the 1900s, to a farm management co-operative. LIC offers diverse genetics and farm management products and...

This article reviews the literature on the economics of farm animal welfare. It starts with the challenge of defining and measuring animal welfare. Subsequently, the demand for farm animal welfare is evaluated from both the citizens’ perspective and the consumers’ perspective. The much-cited...

Despite increasing concerns about animal welfare and the general prevalence of meat-eating practices, little attention has been paid in the consumer behavior literature to understanding consumer guilt around meat consumption. This research fills this void by exploring how consumers behave when...

Serbia has extraordinary conditions for considerably bigger herbal and livestock organic production. The constant growth of the demand for the organic products in the world points to the fact that this method of production can be extremely profitable if natural resources, knowledge and...