WAFL is an international scientific conference on the assessment of animal welfare at farm or group level. Issues addressed during a WAFL conference can be:
welfare criteria;
welfare indicators and methods to analyse them;
automation of measures;
ways to deal with a large amount of data from various welfare measures in order to assess the overall welfare of animals;
rationales underlying epidemiological studies and risk models;
consultation processes;
implementation in practice;
communication of animal welfare assessment results; and
other topics related to animal welfare assessment in practice.