Qualitative social and human scientific literature focusing on actors in and around dairy farming: A narrative review

It includes information from 117 articles that used qualitative research methods and were related to humans, dairy cows, calves, and farming. The articles were published in selected journals not directly targeting dairy science audiences.These materials are organized by review topic: Animal welfare, human-animal bond, human lives around dairy cattle, technology in dairy farming, dairy farming in ecological landscapes, dairy farming in human society, and dairy farming in food landscapes.

In each section and sub-section (where applicable), we included a summarized/paraphrased research aim as expressed by the authors, methods, and study location.