A Results-Oriented Approach for the Animal Welfare Measure of the European Union’s Rural Development Programme by Angela Bergschmidt, Solveig March, Kathrin Wagner, Jan Brinkmann

“…In order to improve the effectiveness of current animal welfare measures for dairy cows, we analysed the elements of such a measure in an interdisciplinary, application-oriented research project involving agricultural economists and livestock scientists. We have used a mixed methods approach including a written Delphi survey, group-discussions and on-farm data-collection to select suitable indicators, develop an approach for the identification of threshold values and to design a support measure. …”
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