In a changing climate, livestock production is expected to exhibit dual
roles of mitigation and adaptation in order to meet the challenge of
food security.
This book approaches the issues of livestock production and climate
change through three sections: I. Livestock production, II. Climate
change and, III. Enteric methane amelioration. Section I addresses
issues of feed quality and availability, abiotic stress (heat and
nutritional) and strategies for alleviation, livestock-generated
nitrogen and phosphorus pollution, and approaches for harnessing the
complex gut microbial diversity. Section II discusses the effects of
climate change on livestock diversity, farm animal reproduction, impact
of meat production on climate change, and emphasizing the role of
indigenous livestock in climatic change to sustain production. Section
III deals with the most recent approaches to amelioration of livestock
methane such as breeding for low methane emissions, reductive
acetogenesis, immunization/vaccine-based concepts and archaea phage
therapy.