Table B.1.

Description of the literature search on husbandry systems

Keyword combination of the ‘topic search’	TS = ((dairy) AND (cow* OR cattle) AND (housing OR husbandry OR “farm type”) AND (Europe OR European OR EU))
Defined time period	2015–2022 in order to focus on present housing systems and practices
Exclusion criteria	–exclusion of complete conference proceedings, –exclusion of articles in a language other than English or German, –exclusion of articles on countries other than EU‐MS countries, –exclusion when no (direct) reference to certain housing systems or husbandry practices, –exclusion of experimental studies on individual (research) farms, –exclusion of articles on systems prevalent before 2000, –exclusion of attitude or consumer studies, –exclusion of project description only, no results given.
Outcome	Of 112 search results, 14 articles were identified as relevant. For the descriptions, partly also literature from non‐EU countries (such as Switzerland) was used, which was identified as relevant via a snowball search (literature cited in the selected literature).