Research Questions

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What are the welfare impacts of parasitism?

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How will climate change affect individuals’ welfare, directly (e.g. extreme weather) and indirectly (e.g. changes in habitat quality?

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What are the welfare impacts of vaccine, parasite, and other disease control programs on target and non-target animal?

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How are local food partnerships in both urban and rural places contributing to the reduction of food from animals ?

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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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What kinds of communities are meaningful, why, where and how, in supporting a reduction in the consumption of food from animals?

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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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How are ‘food animals’ understood and performed in primary, secondary and tertiary education and what happens when these framings are discussed between teachers, pupils and students?

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How is the idea of a ‘food animal’ understood and performed within research across different academic disciplines?

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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 do different food system actors understand and perform current and future roles of animals within food systems, and how do these roles vary across different geographical contexts?

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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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In what ways do future visions of reducing food from animals interact with other imagined future visions of sustainable food systems?

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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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What is the role of religious and cultural differences between major African countries and how this affects the societies' openness to animal advocacy interventions?

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Can AI help in designing experiments that reduce or eliminate the need for animal testing in medical and cosmetic industries?

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How can we ensure that future superintelligent AI systems are aligned with ethical principles that prioritize animal interests?

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