Research Questions

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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, where and why is plant-based eating already being incorporated into daily food practices?

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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 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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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 cheap and scalable radio campaigns in raising awareness and influencing agricultural practices in low- and middle-income 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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How effective and cost-efficient are vegan outreach and corporate campaigns for layer hens in LMICs compared to high-income regions?

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