Influence of Climate Changes on Animal
Feed Production, the Problems
and the Suggested Solutions
Salah A. Attia-Ismail
Abstract Climate change is a long-term change in the earth’s climate, especially a
change due to an increase in the average atmospheric temperature. Climate change
demonstrates itself through the noticeable variation in the weather, including temperature, rainfall, and wind. Agriculture in the arid land is vulnerable to climate
changes since it depends on water resources and prevailing atmospheric conditions.
Influences and consequences of these variables on agriculture might operate negatively or positively. There is a reciprocal effect between climate change and animal
production. The production of livestock contributes about 18% of global greenhouse
gas emissions from all human activities. The farm animals are prone to the adverse
impacts of the changes in climate. The changes in climate will impact both of the
quantity and quality of forage production as well as their reliability. Major impacts
of climatic changes on feed crops and grazing systems would be changes in herbage
growth, changes in the composition of pastures, changes in herbage quality, and the
offset of biomass yield increases. Since pastures depend on rainfall, any changes
in rainfall patterns will affect the plants on pasture. Climate Change Convention in
Paris and declared an agreement to: “hold the increase in the global average temperature to well below 2 °C above pre-industrial levels…. recognizing that this would
significantly reduce the risks and impacts of climate change”. Also to pursue efforts
to limit the temperature increase even further to 1.5 °C. It targeted to undertake
and communicate ambitious efforts to contribute to the global response to climate
change by strengthening the mobility of countries to deal with the impacts of climate
change. The efforts of some selected countries across the world have been explained
as examples and experience to get the benefit of as learnt lessons.
Keywords Climate change · Impacts · Mitigation · Animals · Forages · Pasture ·
Feed production · World experience
S. A. Attia-Ismail (B)
Department of Animal and Poultry Nutrition, Desert Research Center, Cairo, Egypt
e-mail: saai54@hotmail.com
© Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
E.-S. E. Omran and A. M. Negm (eds.), Climate Change Impacts on Agriculture and Food
Security in Egypt, Springer Water, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-41629-4_18
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Feed Production, the Problems
and the Suggested Solutions
Salah A. Attia-Ismail
Abstract Climate change is a long-term change in the earth’s climate, especially a
change due to an increase in the average atmospheric temperature. Climate change
demonstrates itself through the noticeable variation in the weather, including temperature, rainfall, and wind. Agriculture in the arid land is vulnerable to climate
changes since it depends on water resources and prevailing atmospheric conditions.
Influences and consequences of these variables on agriculture might operate negatively or positively. There is a reciprocal effect between climate change and animal
production. The production of livestock contributes about 18% of global greenhouse
gas emissions from all human activities. The farm animals are prone to the adverse
impacts of the changes in climate. The changes in climate will impact both of the
quantity and quality of forage production as well as their reliability. Major impacts
of climatic changes on feed crops and grazing systems would be changes in herbage
growth, changes in the composition of pastures, changes in herbage quality, and the
offset of biomass yield increases. Since pastures depend on rainfall, any changes
in rainfall patterns will affect the plants on pasture. Climate Change Convention in
Paris and declared an agreement to: “hold the increase in the global average temperature to well below 2 °C above pre-industrial levels…. recognizing that this would
significantly reduce the risks and impacts of climate change”. Also to pursue efforts
to limit the temperature increase even further to 1.5 °C. It targeted to undertake
and communicate ambitious efforts to contribute to the global response to climate
change by strengthening the mobility of countries to deal with the impacts of climate
change. The efforts of some selected countries across the world have been explained
as examples and experience to get the benefit of as learnt lessons.
Keywords Climate change · Impacts · Mitigation · Animals · Forages · Pasture ·
Feed production · World experience
S. A. Attia-Ismail (B)
Department of Animal and Poultry Nutrition, Desert Research Center, Cairo, Egypt
e-mail: saai54@hotmail.com
© Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
E.-S. E. Omran and A. M. Negm (eds.), Climate Change Impacts on Agriculture and Food
Security in Egypt, Springer Water, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-41629-4_18
451