Climate and Livestock Disease: assessing the vulnerability of agricultural systems to livestock pests under climate change scenarios

Livestock as a sector is extremely important to the global economy and to rural livelihoods. As of 2013, there was an estimated 38 billion livestock in the world, or five animals for every person. Most (81%) were in developing countries. Around one billion poor farmers keep livestock, many of them w...

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Main Authors: International Center for Tropical Agriculture, CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security
Format: Informe técnico
Language:Inglés
Published: 2015
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/65224

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