Climate change and livestock: Impacts, adaptation, and mitigation

Rojas-Downing, M. Melissa; Nejadhashemi, A. Pouyan; Harrigan, Timothy M.; Woznicki, Sean A.

doi:10.1016/j.crm.2017.02.001

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“…As pointed out in Rojas-Downing et al (2017) [2], most of the livestock research has focused on ruminants but a few studies have addressed other species.…”

Section: Non-ruminantsmentioning

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“…In doing this, we try to reference exemplary pieces and/or recent contributions that offer an entry point into the literature. Rivera-Ferre et al (2016a) [4] and Rojas-Downing et al (2017) [2] have recently presented reviews of livestock adaptation and mitigation activity options, suitable within various types of livestock systems and across locations. To expand this knowledge base, this article considers adaptation options with an economic orientation plus includes broader sectoral level CC response options and incentives.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Additionally, the livestock sector emits an estimated 14.5% of total global anthropogenic greenhouse gases (GHGs) [2]. As a consequence, livestock management alterations have been argued to have significant potential for mitigating atmospheric GHGs and reducing future CC [3].…”

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An Overview of Mitigation and Adaptation Needs and Strategies for the Livestock Sector

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Abstract:The livestock sector is vulnerable to climate change and related policy in two ways. First, livestock production and performance are directly impacted by climate with many projected effects being negative. Second, the sector may need to alter operations to limit the effects of climate change through adaptation and mitigation. Potential adaptation strategies involve land use decisions, animal feeding changes, genetic manipulation and alterations in species and/or breeds. In terms of mitigation, livestock is a substantial contributor to global non-CO 2 greenhouse gas emissions. Mitigation opportunities involve altered land use for grazing and feed production, feeding practices, manure treatment and herd size reduction. In addition, strengthening institutions that promote markets and trade, as well as local support programs can help both mitigation and adaptation. Previous literature has summarized the options available to individual producers. This overview extends the literature by including sector-level response as well as the relationships between adaptation and mitigation activities.

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“…As pointed out in Rojas-Downing et al (2017) [2], most of the livestock research has focused on ruminants but a few studies have addressed other species.…”

Section: Non-ruminantsmentioning

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“…During 1980 to 2008, there was a 5.5% fall in wheat yields and a 3.8% fall in maize yields globally, compared to their yields in stable climate (Lobell et al 2011). Climate change also affects the invasive crop pest species (Yan et al 2017), livestock production (Rojas-Downing et al 2017) and aquaculture (Porter et al 2014). Tropical and developing countries are at the greater risk to climate change as compared to temperate and developed countries and this scenario encounters current and future food production (Gornall et al 2010;Hillel and Rosenzweig 2010;Deryng et al 2014;Porter et al 2014;Challinor et al 2014).…”

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Traditional agriculture: a climate-smart approach for sustainable food production

Singh

2017

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Sustainable food production is one of the major challenges of the twenty-first century in the era of global environmental problems such as climate change, increasing population and natural resource degradation including soil degradation and biodiversity loss. Climate change is among the greatest threats to agricultural systems. Green Revolution though multiplied agricultural production several folds but at the huge environmental cost including climate change. It jeopardized the ecological integrity of agroecosystems by intensive use of fossil fuels, natural resources, agrochemicals and machinery. Moreover, it threatened the age-old traditional agricultural practices. Agriculture is one of the largest sectors that sustain livelihood to maximum number of people and contribute to climate change. Therefore, a climate-smart approach to sustainable food production is the need of hour. Traditional agriculture is getting increased attention worldwide in context of sustainable food production in changing climate. The present article advocates traditional agriculture as a climate-smart approach for the sustainable food production and also deliberates the correlation between climate change and agriculture.

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“…Pastoralists outlined cattle diseases such as CBPP ('orkipei'), cattle anaplasmosis ('nyongo'), ECF ('ndigana'), sudden death of cattle ('alakirikiri') and depletion of bone marrow ('nadendolit') as well as severe loss of body condition. Micro-climate conditions, interactions of animals in grazing areas and water points during the dry season, coupled with weak immunity of animals during feed shortages can contribute to epidemics of animal diseases (Dantas-Torres 2015; Rojas-Downing et al 2015;Kimaro and O Chibinga 2013). Furthermore, climate change can indirectly influence microbial communities (pathogens or parasites) and vectoral ecology which may lead to spread in livestock diseases (Thornton et al 2009;Baylis and Githeko 2006;Patz et al 2008;Dantas-Torres 2015).…”

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Climate change perception and impacts on cattle production in pastoral communities of northern Tanzania

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This study examines pastoralists' perception on climate change and impacts on cattle production from ten study villages of Monduli District in Tanzania. This study drew empirical data from 130 cattle owners and 81 participants from focus group discussions in the study villages. Descriptive statistics and thematic analysis were used to analyze the data respectively. Findings from this study indicate that pastoralists are well aware of the general climate trends in their location, its variability and the impacts of extreme weather events on cattle production. The main climate changes perceived by pastoralists include more erratic and reduced amounts of rainfall, rise in temperature and prolonged and frequent periods of drought. Pastoralists mainly view population pressure and tree cutting as the major causes of climate change. Further, this study found that there are no existing climate risk programmes and early warning systems across the district. Importantly, pastoralists reported the negative impacts of climate change on cattle production. The severe recurrent drought periods result in shortage of forage and water, leading to cattle starvation and malnutrition. Pastoralists reported massive cattle deaths and outbreaks of diseases such as contagious bovine pleuropneumonia and tick-borne diseases. Further, reduction in milk production and poor livestock market prices were also reported as negative impacts on cattle production. Given the range of negative impacts of current climate change and extreme weather events on cattle production, the implications of climate change must be taken into account to ensure longer-term survival and sustainability of pastoralist communities through strengthening of climate risk awareness programs and early warning systems across the district. Further, this study recommends that government and non-governmental organizations should improve institutional support to pastoralists in order to help them deal with the negative impacts of climate change on livestock production.

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Climate change and livestock: Impacts, adaptation, and mitigation

Cited by 1,031 publications

References 89 publications

An Overview of Mitigation and Adaptation Needs and Strategies for the Livestock Sector

An Overview of Mitigation and Adaptation Needs and Strategies for the Livestock Sector

Traditional agriculture: a climate-smart approach for sustainable food production

Climate change perception and impacts on cattle production in pastoral communities of northern Tanzania

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