Setting research priorities for pig welfare ensures limited scientific resources are directed toward the interventions most likely to reduce suffering at scale. Evidence-based priority-setting improves the welfare return on research investment.
Strategic research priority-setting maximises the welfare benefit of scientific investment. Research that informs industry-wide standards delivers welfare benefits proportional to the scale of adoption. Prioritising research into the most prevalent and severe welfare problems, with implementation pathways built into research design, ensures scientific advances translate into real improvements for real animals.