Impact of Climate Change on Animal Health and Production

Bashahun Gebremichael (), Dese Kefyalew (), Zerihun Mulatu (), Mukerim Abdurahaman () and Wubit Tafese ()

International Journal of Climatic Studies, 2023, vol. 2, issue 1, 1 - 15

Abstract: Purpose: To examine the impact of climate change on animal health and production. Methodology: To review an existing literatures concerning impact of climate change on animal health and production. Findings: Climate change is seen as a major threat to the survival of many species of animal, ecosystems and the sustainability of livestock production systems globally. Livestock production and health are considerably vulnerable to the impact of climate change. Since several decades back, climate change has become the major issue affecting global and regional ecosystems and people are working on it. Although yet it is real and is happening with concomitant changes in precipitation, flooding, heavy winds, and the frequency of severe events, increased temperature, and changes in humidity. It is evidenced that it will become worse in the future life. Climate change has direct and indirect impacts on emerging and re-emerging animal diseases and zoonoses since it disrupts natural ecosystems and allows disease-causing pathogens to move into new areas where they may harm wild life, domestic species, and humans. The interaction between animal production and climate change is complex since animal production contributes to climate change. However to the reverse and worse condition, climate change highly affects animal production. Thus, the increased threat of climate change on the animal production and health sectors needs the hands of various stakeholders to work collaboratively.

Keywords: Animal Health and Production; Climate Change; Emerging and Re-Emerging Diseases (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://iprjb.org/journals/index.php/IJCS/article/view/1769 (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:bdu:ojijcs:v:2:y:2023:i:1:p:1-15:id:1769

Access Statistics for this article

More articles in International Journal of Climatic Studies from IPRJB
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Chief Editor ().