Climate change and infectious livestock diseases: The case of Rift Valley fever and tick-borne diseases

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cg.authorship.typesCGIAR and advanced research instituteen
cg.contributor.affiliationInternational Livestock Research Instituteen
cg.contributor.affiliationSwedish University of Agricultural Sciencesen
cg.contributor.affiliationUppsala Universityen
cg.contributor.crpAgriculture for Nutrition and Health
cg.contributor.crpClimate Change, Agriculture and Food Security
cg.coverage.regionAfrica
cg.coverage.regionEastern Africa
cg.coverage.regionSouthern Africa
cg.creator.identifierBernard Bett: 0000-0001-9376-2941
cg.creator.identifierJohanna Lindahl: 0000-0002-1175-0398
cg.creator.identifierDelia Grace: 0000-0002-0195-9489
cg.howPublishedFormally Publisheden
cg.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-92798-5_3en
cg.isbn9783319927978en
cg.isbn9783319927985en
cg.placeCham, Switzerlanden
cg.reviewStatusPeer Reviewen
cg.subject.ccafsPRIORITIES AND POLICIES FOR CSAen
cg.subject.ilriANIMAL DISEASESen
cg.subject.ilriCLIMATE CHANGEen
cg.subject.ilriLIVESTOCKen
cg.subject.ilriRVFen
cg.subject.ilriZOONOTIC DISEASESen
dc.contributor.authorBett, Bernard K.en
dc.contributor.authorLindahl, Johanna F.en
dc.contributor.authorGrace, Deliaen
dc.date.accessioned2018-12-07T09:05:37Zen
dc.date.available2018-12-07T09:05:37Zen
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/98462
dc.titleClimate change and infectious livestock diseases: The case of Rift Valley fever and tick-borne diseasesen
dcterms.abstractClimate change influences the occurrence and transmission of a wide range of livestock diseases through multiple pathways. Diseases caused by pathogens that spent part of their life cycle outside the host (e.g. in vectors or the environment) are more sensitive in this regard, compared to those caused by obligate pathogens. In this chapter, we use two well-studied vector-borne diseases—Rift Valley fever (RVF) and tick-borne diseases (TBDs)—as case studies to describe direct pathways through which climate change influences infectious disease-risk in East and southern Africa. The first case study demonstrates that changes in the distribution and frequency of above-normal precipitation increases the frequency of RVF epidemics. The second case study suggests that an increase in temperature would cause shifts in the spatial distribution of TBDs, with cooler and wetter areas expected to experience heightened risk with climate change. These diseases already cause severe losses in agricultural productivity, food security and socio-economic development wherever they occur, and an increase in their incidence or geographical coverage would intensify these losses. We further illustrate some of the control measures that can be used to manage these diseases and recommend that more research should be done to better understand the impacts of climate change on livestock diseases as well as on the effectiveness of the available intervention measures.en
dcterms.accessRightsOpen Access
dcterms.audienceScientistsen
dcterms.available2018-11-28
dcterms.bibliographicCitationBett, B., Lindahl, J. and Grace, D. 2019. Climate change and infectious livestock diseases: The case of Rift Valley fever and tick-borne diseases. In: Rosenstock T.S., Nowak A. and Girvetz E. (eds), The climate-smart agriculture papers. Cham, Switzerland: Springer: 29-37.en
dcterms.extentp. 29-37en
dcterms.issued2019
dcterms.languageen
dcterms.licenseCC-BY-4.0
dcterms.publisherSpringeren
dcterms.relationhttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/99250en
dcterms.subjectanimal diseasesen
dcterms.subjectclimate changeen
dcterms.subjectzoonosesen
dcterms.typeBook Chapter

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