My understanding is that there is still more money within farmed animal welfare and global poverty than opportunities for funding.
For farmed animal welfare, as per the title: âWe need more nuance regarding funding gapsâ, I think it is indeed more nuanced than âthere is more money than opps for funding in farmed animal welfare.â
Quickly consider the likes of:
Some of the more outstanding bigger orgs can absorb much more funding, pretty productively (think e.g. THL, GFI, CIWF, MFA, etc.) Across those outstanding big groups alone, quite likely we could easily do an additional ~>$10M/âyr on what we do right now.
Also, there are some programs that could be scaled up a lot. E.g., pumping further $âs into open access PB research.
As a concrete example, right now finding opps in parts of SE Asia or the Middle East seems much more of a bottleneck than finding the funding for that.
Similarly so, as you probably know, for work on invertebrates ;)
So both opportunity and funding bottlenecks apply at the movement level for farmed animal welfare. But, the nuance is that they really apply to quite differing extents to different parts of the movement.
For farmed animal welfare, as per the title: âWe need more nuance regarding funding gapsâ, I think it is indeed more nuanced than âthere is more money than opps for funding in farmed animal welfare.â
Quickly consider the likes of:
Some of the more outstanding bigger orgs can absorb much more funding, pretty productively (think e.g. THL, GFI, CIWF, MFA, etc.) Across those outstanding big groups alone, quite likely we could easily do an additional ~>$10M/âyr on what we do right now.
Also, there are some programs that could be scaled up a lot. E.g., pumping further $âs into open access PB research.
For some specific types of promising work, like monitoring and evaluation, the bottlenecks do seem to be more about funding (e.g., see FAFâs recent state of the movement report)
On the other hand:
As a concrete example, right now finding opps in parts of SE Asia or the Middle East seems much more of a bottleneck than finding the funding for that.
Similarly so, as you probably know, for work on invertebrates ;)
So both opportunity and funding bottlenecks apply at the movement level for farmed animal welfare. But, the nuance is that they really apply to quite differing extents to different parts of the movement.