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 smallholder farmers keep livestock, many...

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Main Authors: Grace, Delia, Bett, Bernard K., Lindahl, Johanna F., Robinson, Timothy P.
Format: Artículo preliminar
Language:Inglés
Published: 2015
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/66595
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description 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 smallholder farmers keep livestock, many of them women. The burden of animal disease in developing countries is high: livestock disease probably kills 20% of ruminants and more than 50% of poultry each year causing a loss of approximately USD 300 billion per year. Climate change can exacerbate disease in livestock, and some diseases are especially sensitive to climate change. Among 65 animal diseases identified as most important to poor livestock keepers, 58% are climate sensitive. Climate change may also have indirect effects on animal disease, and these may be greater than the direct effects.
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spelling CGSpace665952025-11-04T16:36:04Z Climate and livestock disease: assessing the vulnerability of agricultural systems to livestock pests under climate change scenarios Grace, Delia Bett, Bernard K. Lindahl, Johanna F. Robinson, Timothy P. climate change food security livestock farms agriculture 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 smallholder farmers keep livestock, many of them women. The burden of animal disease in developing countries is high: livestock disease probably kills 20% of ruminants and more than 50% of poultry each year causing a loss of approximately USD 300 billion per year. Climate change can exacerbate disease in livestock, and some diseases are especially sensitive to climate change. Among 65 animal diseases identified as most important to poor livestock keepers, 58% are climate sensitive. Climate change may also have indirect effects on animal disease, and these may be greater than the direct effects. 2015-06-04 2015-06-03T17:01:06Z 2015-06-03T17:01:06Z Working Paper https://hdl.handle.net/10568/66595 en Open Access application/pdf Grace D, Bett B, Lindahl J, Robinson T. 2015. Climate and livestock disease: assessing the vulnerability of agricultural systems to livestock pests under climate change scenarios. CCAFS Working Paper no. 116. Copenhagen, Denmark: CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS).
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food security
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agriculture
Grace, Delia
Bett, Bernard K.
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Robinson, Timothy P.
Climate and livestock disease: assessing the vulnerability of agricultural systems to livestock pests under climate change scenarios
title Climate and livestock disease: assessing the vulnerability of agricultural systems to livestock pests under climate change scenarios
title_full Climate and livestock disease: assessing the vulnerability of agricultural systems to livestock pests under climate change scenarios
title_fullStr Climate and livestock disease: assessing the vulnerability of agricultural systems to livestock pests under climate change scenarios
title_full_unstemmed Climate and livestock disease: assessing the vulnerability of agricultural systems to livestock pests under climate change scenarios
title_short Climate and livestock disease: assessing the vulnerability of agricultural systems to livestock pests under climate change scenarios
title_sort climate and livestock disease assessing the vulnerability of agricultural systems to livestock pests under climate change scenarios
topic climate change
food security
livestock farms
agriculture
url https://hdl.handle.net/10568/66595
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