(i) To assess the potential impacts of climate change on livestock

(ii) To predict the impacts on the livestock sector under various climate change scenarios.

(iii) To assess the possible adaptation options for livestock farmers in Gujarat.

The study used Ricardian approach/ production approach to estimate the impacts of climate change on livestockfarms. The Ricardian approach examines how climate in different places affects the net rent or value of farmland (Mendelsohn et al., 1994). This approach is a cross-sectional empirical analysis designed to capture the effect of ‘natural experiments’ practiced by farmers across different agro-climate zones or locations. In other words, the farming activities across a large country with sufficiently varying climate can be used as samples for comparing farmers’ response to change climate. The method uses the typical economic measure of farm performance: net revenue or net farm income. By examining the economic performance of farms across different agro-climate and regressing farm performance on long-term climate, one can empirically estimate long-term climate sensitivity. The Ricardian approach has been used to estimate the impacts of climate change on agriculture in the United States (Mendelsohn et al., 1994, 1996, 1999; Schlenker et al., 2002), India (Dinar et al., 1998) and Brazil. In order to predict climate change impacts for this region, were examined climate change scenarios predicted by three Atmospheric Oceanic General Circulation Models (AOGCM): the Canadian Climate Centre (CCC), the Centre for Climate System Research (CCSR), and the Parallel Climate Model (PCM) models.