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  1. Library Resource
    Gender inequalities
    Reports & Research
    August, 2014
    Zambia

    BarotseFloodplain, Western Province of Zambia
    •Multiple demographic, socioeconomic and climatic challenges and vulnerabilities
    •Variety of livelihood opportunities: flood –provide fish & aquatic plants; water subside –fertile ground to cultivate crops
    •Cattle, forest products, fish trade, piecework

     

  2. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    December, 2014

    Because vulnerability is a conceptual construct rather than a directly observable phenomenon,

    most vulnerability assessments measure a set of “vulnerability indicators”. In order to identify

    the core approaches and range of variation in the field, we conducted a systematic literature

    review on local vulnerability to climate change. The systematic review entailed an

    identification of frameworks, concepts, and operationalizations and a transparency assessment

    of their reporting. Three fully defined relevant frameworks of vulnerability were identified:

  3. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    December, 2014

    The contemporary concern about anthropogenic release of greenhouse gas (GHG) into the

    environment and the contribution of livestock to this phenomenon have sparked animal

    scientists’ interest in predicting methane (CH4) emissions by ruminants. Focusing on milk

    production, we address six basic nutrition models or feeding standards (mostly empirical

    systems) and five complex nutrition models (mostly mechanistic systems), describe their key

    characteristics, and highlight their similarities and differences. Four models were selected to

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