Evaluation of long-term welfare initiatives on working equid welfare and social transmission of knowledge in Mexico. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2021 Working equids play an essential role in supporting livelihoods, providing resilience and income security to people around the world, yet their welfare is often poor.
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A New Framework for Assessing Equid Welfare: A Case Study of Working Equids in Nepalese Brick Kilns [PDF]
Animals, 2020 Equids fulfil many different roles within communities. In low- to middle-income countries (LMICs), in addition to providing a source of income, equids also provide essential transport of food, water, and goods to resource-limited and/or isolated ...
Stuart L. Norris +7 more
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Equid Assessment, Research and Scoping (EARS): The Development and Implementation of a New Equid Welfare Assessment and Monitoring Tool [PDF]
Animals, 2020 The assessment of animal welfare poses numerous challenges, yet an emerging approach is the consolidation of existing knowledge into new frameworks which can offer standardised approaches to welfare assessment across a variety of contexts. Multiple tools
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"What can we do to actually reach all these animals?" Evaluating approaches to improving working equid welfare. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2022 NGOs utilise a range of programming to bring about desired changes. This study examines the advantages and limitations of the range of approaches used by one particular NGO sector: working equid welfare organisations, from the perspective of NGO staff ...
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Documenting the Welfare and Role of Working Equids in Rural Communities of Portugal and Spain [PDF]
Animals, 2020 Recently, the need for a more holistic approach to welfare assessment has been highlighted. This is particularly pertinent in the case of working equids who provide vital support for human livelihoods, often in low- to middle-income countries, yet suffer
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One welfare: Linking poverty, equid ownership and equid welfare in the brick kilns of India – ERRATUM [PDF]
Animal Welfare, 2023 LM Kubasiewicz +8 more
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Sustainability in NGO Programming: A Case Study of Working Equid Welfare Organizations [PDF]
SAGE Open, 2023 The sustainability of NGO initiatives has become a criterion by which to judge the success of programming. This study explores the conditions needed in order to achieve sustainable change by focusing on a sector that has recently experienced this shift ...
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The Welfare Aggregation and Guidance (WAG) Tool: A New Method to Summarize Global Welfare Assessment Data for Equids [PDF]
Animals, 2020 Animal welfare can be represented by an array of indicators. There is, however, increasing demand for concise welfare assessments that can be easily communicated and compared.
Laura M. Kubasiewicz +8 more
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Assessing the impact of draught load pulling on welfare in equids [PDF]
Frontiers in Veterinary Science, 2023 About 112 million working equids are the source of income for 600 million people globally. Many equids are used for pulling loads (up to 15,000 kg per day) to transport goods. Most of them are associated with brick kilns, mining, and agriculture industries in developing countries.
Syed S. U. H. Bukhari +1 more
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One welfare: Linking poverty, equid ownership and equid welfare in the brick kilns of India [PDF]
Animal Welfare, 2022 AbstractThe brick kilns in India are associated with extremely low pay, poor working conditions and a lack of regulation. Equids, however, may provide a route out of poverty by enabling workers to access a higher income. The relatively higher financial returns from healthy equids could also motivate welfare improvements.
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