Discussing the impact of climate change on livestock and the fourth industrial revolution in food processing within the activities of the first day of the 11th Annual International Conference of Ain Shams University

Within the framework of the activities of the first day of the eleventh annual international conference of Ain Shams University, entitled "Knowledge Economy ... for a Better Life", a session entitled "The Impact of Climate Change on Livestock" was held under the chairmanship of Prof. Nazmi Abdel Hamid, former Vice President of the University, and another session entitled "The Fourth Industrial Revolution in Food Processing" headed by Prof. Ahmed Galal, Dean of the Faculty of Agriculture, at Ain Shams University.

Prof. Nazmi Abdel Hamid explained that climate change has become at the forefront of important issues, as the alarm has sounded and scientists and researchers must work to solve this problem, indicating that during the session these changes and their effects will be discussed in an attempt to reach solutions that contribute to confronting them.

Prof. Ahmed Jalal, Dean of the Faculty of Agriculture, at Ain Shams University, spoke about the poultry industry in light of climate changes, stressing that the topic is not modern and that it has been the talk of the whole world since 1950, and predictions have begun that there will be dire consequences of climate changes in the future.

He explained that the poultry industry is the industry of the future, and it is the first source of food and protein, which witnessed a boom in the past, but it is no secret to everyone now that it is suffering from a severe crisis in Egypt, and it has witnessed a steady and rapid increase in its prices, and part of this crisis is due to climate changes, and its impact on this industry.

He also touched on proving the existence of climate change with ten facts, stressing that poultry meat is the future of the world to face population increase, as the world population is likely to reach about 8 billion people by 2030. He also discussed the effect of heat stress on the behavioral and physiological changes of poultry and compensated for the strategies to confront the poultry crisis.

And Prof. Jamal Jumaa Madani, Professor and Head of the Department of Wildlife at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, at Suez Canal University, in his lecture during the session, discussed the impact of climate change on biodiversity, especially wildlife, reviewing the concept of climate change, defining global warming, and explaining the United Nations plan for sustainable development and its seventeen goals.

He also touched on the impact of climate changes on the environment and its components in general, on plants, aquatic creatures, fish, pests, diseases, insects, ecosystems, and some animal species, in addition to the impact of climate changes on water resources.

And Prof. Madni presented that wildlife is affected by climatic changes, such as the migration of birds to Egypt and the bleaching of coral reefs.

While Prof. Samah Ahmed Abdel Hafeez, a researcher from the Animal Health Research Institute, discussed the impact of changes on animal and livestock health, and that an increase in the population requires an increase in the number of animals and livestock. We can predict the per capita share of animal protein, and that it will decrease over the years as a result of climate changes.

In the second session entitled "The Fourth Industrial Revolution in Food Processing", Prof. Hussein Mansour, founder and head of the National Authority for Food Safety, explained the concept of legislation and reviewed legislation affecting food, pointing out that Islamic legislation gives Muslims a description of what can be eaten.

He also reviewed the role of universities in contributing to building the scientific basis for food safety.

Prof. Ali Moawad Ahmed, Professor of Health and Food Safety at Suez Canal University, spoke about the food chain, food safety, and legislation that guarantees its safety, reviewing the first federal law to preserve meat, technical requirements for slaughterhouses, food legislation, technical rules related to different types of pollutants, developments and modernization of food laws in poultry with the penalty of food fraud, and laws and legislation that guarantee food safety in sister countries such as Saudi Arabia, stressing that food safety has become a great necessity now and is no longer a luxury and that it is not the monopoly of a specific societal group.