Climate-smart livestock production

This course analyses the role of livestock production in climate-smart agriculture. It describes the importance of livestock production to food security and identifies adaptation and mitigation strategies and practices along the entire livestock supply chain. It also illustrates how livestock keeping is itself an adaptation strategy and how the sector can contribute to the global mitigation effort.

Learning Objectives

• The impact of climate change on livestock and how livestock production contributes to climate change
• The importance of livestock production to food security
• Strategies for achieving climate-smart livestock (resource use efficiency, waste management and soil sequestration) and livestock keeping as an adaptation strategy
• How to overcome barriers to climate-smart livestock production