Climate change and livestock: Impacts, adaptation, and mitigation

Global demand for livestock products is expected to double by 2050, mainly due to improvement in the worldwide standard of living. Meanwhile, climate change is a threat to livestock production because of the impact on quality of feed crop and forage, water availability, animal and milk production, livestock diseases, animal reproduction, and biodiversity. This study reviews the global impacts of climate change on livestock production, the contribution of livestock production to climate change, and specific climate change adaptation and mitigation strategies in the livestock sector. Livestock production will be limited by climate variability as animal water consumption is expected to increase by a factor of…

• UD
  U.S. Department of Agriculture
• DO
  Department of Agriculture, Australian Government
• SU
  Shaoxing University
• NI
  National Institute of Food and Agriculture