
Boosting livestock production could be an attractive alternative for millions of poor farmers across Africa who, in the coming decades, could find that climate change has rendered their lands unsuitable for crop cultivation yet still viable for raising animals, according to the study that appears this week in a special edition of the journal Environmental Science and Policy.
"Livestock, particularly animals that are known to be tolerant of heat and drought, can survive in conditions that are far more severe than what crops can tolerate," said Philip Thornton, an ILRI scientist and one of the paper's co-authors…
Kenya's Lake Turkana in 1979, shot by Robin Alasdair Frederick Hutton from Perth, Western Australia, Wikimedia Commons via Flickr, under Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 License
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