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agriculture, affecting crop Understanding Food harming agricultural incomes,
yields, water availability, and Security compromising nutrition
livestock health. In countries The Food and Agriculture through lower-quality crops,
like India, where agriculture is Organization (FAO) defines and undermining system
heavily dependent on climate food security as a situation stability.
factors such as monsoons where all people, at all times, 1. Direct Effects of Climate
and temperature patterns, have physical, social, and Change on Dairy Animals
climate variability poses a
economic access to sufficient, · Heat Stress and Reduced
direct threat to food
safe, and nutritious food to Milk Production
production, farmer
meet their dietary needs and One of the most
Effect of Climate Change on security. The consequences preferences for an active and immediate effects of
livelihoods, and national food
healthy life. Food security is
include increased food prices, built upon four key pillars: climate change on dairy
Food Security of Dairy Animals malnutrition, and potential 1. Availability – Sufficient animals is heat stress,
particularly when
social unrest.
food supply at local, temperatures exceed
India, being the world's top
and Their Performance milk producer, is especially national, and global 25–30°C. Cows and
vulner able to such climatic levels. buffaloes struggle to
2. Access – Economic and regulate their body
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Dr Harsimran Kaur , Dr Simranjeet Kaur , Dr Harinder Singh , Dr Ramandeep Singh 4 changes. The dairy sector not
1& 2 3 only contributes significantly physical means to obtain temperature under such
Ph.D., Punjab Agricultural University; Excellent Enterprises, Khanna;
4 to the national economy but food.
Professor, Punjab Agricultural University
also serves as a vital 3. Utilization – Proper use
Climate Change: A Growing Threat to greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. of food, including its
nutritional source especially
Global Agriculture and Food Security As a result, global temperatures have for the country's large nutritional quality and
Climate change refers to long-term risen, disrupting ecosystems and vegetarian population, for how the body absorbs
changes in global weather patterns, climatic stability. whom milk is the primary nutrients.
primarily characterized by rising According to the Intergovernmental source of animal protein. 4. Stability – Consistent
temperatures, altered precipitation, and Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the Climate change is likely to availability and access to
an increase in extreme weather events Earth's average temperature has disrupt milk production food over time, without
such as droughts, floods, and heat increased by about 1°C above pre- potential, which could have disruptions.
waves. These changes are largely driven industrial levels and is expected to rise far-reaching effects on
Climate change threatens all
by human activities such as by an additional 1.5°C to 2°C by mid- nutrition and health of both these pillar—disrupting
deforestation, industrial emissions, and century if current emission levels dairy animals and humans as production through extreme
the burning of fossil fuels, which persist. These temperature changes well as overall income weather, reducing access by
contribute to the buildup of have serious implications for security.
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