**3.3 Adopting livestock production as an adaptation strategy**

The integration of livestock farming with crop production, where some of the crops grown at the farm serve as livestock feed has been a common practice across the globe. This however in most cases depends is a function of matching the correct livestock type with the feed available, the ability of the animal in question to survive on crop residues or disease resistance.

Poultry production has since been one of the enterprises engaged by many farmers in collaboration with crop production in many countries, [32]. Poultry can effectively utilise crop-based feeds such as soya beans and maize with high production success rates. Many indigenous chicken breeds can even survive under free range production systems with little or no feed supplementation. Similarly, locally adapted breeds have high disease resistance rates corresponding to a limited need for prophylactic and therapeutic disease management. Poultry are particularly especially in Africa a means

of controlling the effects of climate change as they require minimal production space and can thrive on household waste.
