Climate change impacts on animal food production [El cambio climático y su impacto en la producción de alimentos de origen animal]

This review article shows an overview of the climate change challenges to animal food production. Emphasize is given to the current climate change and global warming scientific theories and political trends, according to the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC, 2007). Examples of the negative effects of climate change are provided in livestock, in terms of heat stress and vector disease transmission, and loss due to droughts and floods with Mexican case studies. Livestock impact on greenhouse gases is described as well with some mitigation measurements through sustainable and/or organic animal welfare friendly- production systems resumed