Livestock and climate change impacts in the developing world

Outlook on Agriculture

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 245-248

  Reynolds, Christopher ^a   Crompton, Les ^a   Mills, Jonathan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Greenhouse gases; Livelihoods; Livestock farming; Mitigation; Water

Indexed keywords

EID: 79251502960     PISSN: 00307270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5367/oa.2010.0015     Document Type: Article

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