Research Questions

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What can persistence studies tell us about the impact of social and technological change on attitudes towards animals in the future?

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How much does it matter whether animal farming is outlawed or just made increasingly obsolete, either through replacement by AFFT or by a gradually declining demand for animal products?

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What is the potential of relatively novel efforts to support the alternative protein ecosystem?

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What is the potential impact of efforts that aim to improve the welfare of neglected farmed animals such as fish, or invertebrates, especially shrimp and prawns?

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What is the potential of non-conventional ways of reducing animal product consumption?

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What strategies can effectively attract more stakeholders in PLMICs to work on reducing animal-based food consumption and promoting plant-based alternatives?

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How can government policies in PLMICs be influenced to reduce support for animal farming and promote the growth of plant-based alternatives?

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What factors contribute to the cost of plant-based alternative foods in PLMICs, and how do these costs compare to their animal-based counterparts?

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How can the plant-based alternatives industry in PLMICs be developed to reduce animal-based food consumption and explore export opportunities?

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Vegan Thesis 9/8/24 Vegan Thesis 9/8/24

What is the actual and potential contribution of national dietary guidelines and public procurement to moving beyond animal-based food systems?

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What are the current agricultural policies and other public policies that support animal-based food systems, and how are they legitimised ?

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How do socio-economic categories and identities, and their intersections, play a role in (not) eating food from animals and the ways in which this form of eating is changing in practice?

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What are the behavioural, institutional, agronomic and economic challenges and opportunities associated with plant-based protein production ?

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How, and by whom, are vegan agricultural systems being imagined and developed in different country contexts ?

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How and why are farmers and other rural community members responding to the calls for reducing food from animals?

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How and why do different stakeholders contribute to societal debates around food from animals?

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What is the nature of societal debates around food from animals (political, economic, social, ethical)?

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Vegan Thesis 9/7/24 Vegan Thesis 9/7/24

What is the current extent and impact of caged broiler farming in low- and middle-income countries, particularly in Africa?

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To what extent can lobbying banks and financial institutions to impose stricter loan conditions deter the establishment and expansion of factory farming setups?

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How can collaboration with insurance companies to increase premiums for factory farms influence the prevalence and sustainability of intensive farming operations?

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