**3. Strategies for adaptation to climate change in the livestock sector**

For long, there have been widely publicised calls to mitigate and adapt to climate change issues and efforts are evident worldwide, however, this may be at the expense of natural ways of adaption and fears are that there could be the possibility of the emergency of new unforeseen challenges on the environment [3]. Adaptation typically refers to longer-term changes in behaviour and practices which are more likely to reduce underlying vulnerability to climate change [29]. Commonly documented livestock adaptation strategies include diversifying livestock activities, diversifying livestock types, supplementing livestock feed, and developing niche markets to preserve indigenous breeds.
