Provision of Farm Animal Welfare: Integrating Productivity and Non-Use Values

Carl-Johan Lagerkvist, Helena Hansson, Sebastian Hess and Ruben Hoffman

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, 2011, vol. 33, issue 4, 484-509

Abstract: Decisions made by livestock producers inevitably determine the extent of actual farm animal welfare (FAW) provision in livestock production. This article identify key issues in the identification and empirical measurement of farmer's preferences for FAW-related, non-use values to encourage theoretically-sound future research to address relevant potential producer trade-off such as those between use and non-use values with consequences for the total amount of FAW provisions to be delivered to society. Producer preferences for specific non-use values, as well as their overall strength of preferences for non-use values relative to use values will determine their provision of FAW. Investment and/or adjustment costs, however, may prevent producers from changing their production system to their preferred choice and economic welfare measures will be biased whenever such costs are neglected. Copyright 2011, Oxford University Press.

Date: 2011
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