Research Questions

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What impact can campaigns against contract farming have on protecting local, small farmers and discouraging the centralization of agricultural operations by multinational corporations?

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How do meat/animal product import and export flows impact African countries?

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How effective are measures to discourage foreign private investors from investing in industrial animal agriculture in low- and middle-income countries in reducing the expansion of intensive farming?

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What impact can advocacy against public international investments in intensive farming practices have on the development of sustainable agricultural systems in LMICs?

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How can animal welfare be made financially attractive ?

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Vegan Thesis 9/6/24 Vegan Thesis 9/6/24

How accurate are the insect farming industry’s circularity claims?

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How well accepted are the solutions to frequently presented barriers to adoption of higher welfare models (livestock stakeholders)?

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Vegan Thesis 8/6/24 Vegan Thesis 8/6/24

What are the barriers to cost reduction in plant-based alternatives to milk, cheese, meat, chicken, and fish, and what are the projections for achieving scale economies?

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What are the factors affecting the cost of production of various animal proteins, and what possible technological innovations could influence these costs?

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Vegan Thesis 8/5/24 Vegan Thesis 8/5/24

What are the key cost components of producing chicken and top-consumed fish species in highly populous countries, and how can these costs be influenced to achieve price changes?

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

What are the projected market dynamics and growth trajectories of cultivated meat across global geographies?

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What added-value products can be manufactured in African countries to support seaweed farming instead of fish farming?

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Vegan Thesis 6/17/24 Vegan Thesis 6/17/24

Can we develop a rigorous economic model that embraces anti-speciesism?

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To what extent would changes to the farm production of one animal affect the numbers of other (farmed and wild) animals born?

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To what extent, and on what scales, do various shocks to supply and demand affect the number of animals farmed for food ?

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Does the purchase of plant-based analogs in retail settings cause displacements of the corresponding animal products?

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Where and why do price differences between animal products and plant-based alternatives exist?

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How can small-scale and semi-intensive fish farms use affordable technology to improve welfare?

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How could aquaculture farmers use existing farms for alternative agriculture?

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How much will aquaculture grow?

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