Livestock play important social  and cultural  roles in many societies. Climate change will negatively affect the provisioning of social benefits in many of the world's grasslands . Examples include moving to semi-private land ownership models, driven in part by climate change, that are changing social networks and limiting socio-ecological resilience in pastoral systems in East Africa  and Asia ; altering traditional food, resource and medicine sharing mechanisms in West Africa ; and the limited ability of current livestock systems to satisfy societies' demand for CES in Northwest Europe . The societal impacts of climate change on livestock systems may interact with drivers of change and increase herders' vulnerability via processes of sedentarisation and land fragmentation, both of which may result in decreased animal access to rangelands . Stronger linkages are needed between ecosystem service and food security research and policy to address these challenges .
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Climate Change 2022: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability
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