One Welfare Animal Health and Welfare, Food Security and Sustainability

Rebeca García Pinillos (Edited By) Rebeca García Pinillos qualified as a vet at the University of Zaragoza, Spain and completed a PhD at the University of Reading, England. Rebeca is a diplomate of the European College of Animal Welfare and Behavioural Medicine and a certified specialist by the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons (RCVS) in animal welfare, ethics and law. She has worked in general practice and veterinary government work since 2001, joining Defra as Veterinary Adviser in 2008. Rebeca has volunteered with exotic animals and is an internationally recognised animal welfare lecturer and speaker on animal welfare, teaching and speaking across Europe, Asia, Central and South America. Rebeca is a past-President of the Association of Government Vets and championed "One Health, One Welfare and the role of vets in society" as well as veterinary wellbeing and how this connects to the concept of One Welfare during her presidency years. Since 2015 Rebeca has championed the concept of One Welfare and founded a non-profit social enterprise, One Welfare Community Interest Company, which started as a voluntary project, launching a global consultation to define and create a One Welfare framework as a complement to One Health. Rebeca created social media platforms and a web presence for the concept of One Welfare to help expand and disseminate the concept and related work. Initiatives launched to date supporting these objectives are the publication of the One Welfare Framework book and the projects One Welfare World, One Welfare Phoenix and One Welfare Silkworm. Stella Maria Huertas Canén (Edited By) Stella Maria Huertas Canén is a Doctor of Veterinary Medicine and Master in Animal Health at the University of the República Oriental del Uruguay. From the beginning of her academic life she specialized in the study of meat quality and later in her career on the welfare of production animals in a country with one of the highest beef meat production and export rates in the world. She is the coordinator of the Animal Welfare Program of the Veterinary Faculty of University of the República Oriental del Uruguay and Assistant Professor of Biostatistics within the same University. Since 2009 Stella is the coordinator for Uruguay of the OIE Collaborating Center in Animal Welfare and Livestock Production Systems for the Americas, a consortium made of institutions from Chile-Uruguay-Mexico. Stella Maris is also a member of the integrated ad hoc group of the OIE. Stella Maris has been a pioneer in issues related to the welfare of production animals in her country and in the region, and has led important research projects that have contributed to creating knowledge, generating human resources, spreading good practices to all stakeholders, including farmers, farm staff, transporters and personnel of the meat industry. Stella has authored multiple publications related to silvopastoral systems, animal welfare and productivity.

1: The interconnection between animal and human welfare and their environment. Catherine Devitt and Inger Anneberg. 2: Food production systems and how they relate to animal welfare. Donald M. Broom. 3: Integrating animal welfare as a component of sustainable farming systems. Stella Maris Huertas Canén, Carmen Gallo, Tamara Tadich and Francisco Galindo. 4: Animal Welfare, Stress, and Food Safety. Lohendy Muñoz-Vargas, Rebeca Zamora-Sanabria and Warren Hidalgo-Jara 5: Livestock production: physical and social environment. Mateus Paranhos da Costa, Ariel Tarazona, Maria Camila Ceballos and Luciandra Macedo de Toledo 6: Animal welfare indicators and their relation to workers’ wellbeing and environment. Déborah Temple, Antoni Dalmau, Xavier Manteca and Antonio Velarde 7: The economics of animal welfare improvements within livestock production systems, state aid and trade. Adolfo Sansolini and Peter Stevenson.