Twelfth International Conference on Climate Change: Impacts & Responses

Abstract

Climate change is impacting milk production worldwide. For instance, increased heat stress in cows is causing average-sized dairy farms to lose thousands of milk gallons each year. Drastic climate change, especially in developing countries, is pushing small farmers, farmers with less than ten to twenty-five cattle below the poverty line, and is triggering suicides due to economic stress and social stigma. It’s profoundly clear that current dairy agriculture practices are falling short of countering the impacts of climate change. What we need are innovative and intelligent dairy farming techniques that employ the best of traditional practices with data infused insights to counter the negative effects of climate change. To achieve innovative and intelligent dairy farming techniques, we need to disseminate state of the art data science. In other words, provide state of the art data science algorithms to every food harvesting citizen, data scientist, and farmer. The democratization of artificial intelligence to farmers, importantly, not only empowers farmers to understand the patterns and signatures of climate change, but also provides the ability to forecast the impending climate change adverse events, and recommends data driven insights to counter the negative effects of climate change. With the availability of new data tools, farmers can not only improve their standard of life, but also conquer, importantly, the perennial “climate change related suicide” issue. It’s our staunch believe that the gold standard for the success of the democratization of artificial intelligence is no farmer life lost due to the negative effects of climate change.