Climate change can have significant impacts on domesticated agricultural animals, affecting various aspects of their well-being, productivity, and overall health.
How, and to what extent, can climate change affect global food availability?
Climate change threatens global food availability by impacting agriculture, livestock, and water resources. This challenges food security, requiring adaptive strategies in agriculture, resource management, and policy to address the consequences and sustain the food system.
Heat stress, changed crop and pasture forage yields due to alterations in climate condition as well as indirect emissions from animal feed production are the ways through which domesticated agricultural animals get affected by global warming . Such impacts may result in a decrease of global milk and meat productions by 2050 as trade adjustments .
Reduced feed intake is one of the first and biggest consequences of heat stress, leading to declines in growth rates and production of milk or eggs. The day by day the problem of heat and cold and threatened with extinction according to the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES). The rise in the temperature causes several temperature-related illnesses and also death. In one hand it causes a decrease in production, on the other hand, it causes deterioration of animal health. With the increase in temperature several vectorborne diseases, infectious diseases and foodborne diseases increase rapidly. The high rise in temperature also causes a shortage of animal food in different seasons. The scarcity of food for the animals results in malnutrition. This eventually makes the animals more prone to diseases.
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