This study examines the effects of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) measures and instruments1 on animal welfare and the reduction of antimicrobial use. It identifies farming practices, their impacts on these two components, and how such practices were effectively supported by the CAP, then a...
The European Commission has been promoting animal welfare for over 40 years, especially as citizen expectations on animal-husbandry standards have been increasing. Recently, it has added the use of antimicrobials in animal production to its priorities in order to address resistance to those drug...
The study examines the effects of the CAP instruments and measures on animal welfare and antimicrobial use. For this purpose, the role played by the overall CAP framework on the implementation of farming practices and corresponding effects on animal welfare and antimicrobial use in various anima...
Agricultural landscape features are small fragments of natural or semi-natural vegetation in agricultural land which, compared to their relatively small size, provide important contributions to ecosystem services and biodiversity. They have long-standing historical and cultural roots in the agri...