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A resilient outdoor industry seeks to broaden its base
2016-08-12 18:39:00| Daily apparel & textile news and comment - from just-style.com
With 29,000 visitors and 1626 exhibitors, this year's Outdoor Retailer Summer Market, which took place earlier this month in Salt Lake City, had its usual upbeat vibe. But there were signs that the outdoor industry is feeling the effects of 2016's "winter of our discontent," along with several retail bankruptcies, stock market disruptions in China, and the Brexit uncertainty in Europe.
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industry
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Ethiopia: Building Climate Resilient Economy As Part of Sustainable Development
2016-08-04 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Ethiopian Herald: Ethiopia is a home for nearly 100 million people. The nation's economic mainstay is agricultural sector that is also a means of livelihood of 85 per cent of the population. And it plays key role for earning foreign exchange. The sector which depends on the extraction of natural resources needs conservation and the preservation of balanced ecosystem for utilizing the resource in a sustainable manner. However, the sector is not only affected by local human activity but also by the climate change which...
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development
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Fostering Sustainable, Resilient Food Security In Nigeria
2016-07-11 22:49:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Leadership: Agriculture accounts for about 24 percent of Nigerias Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and employs about 70 percent of the labour force in the country. It is dominated by about 15 million smallholders (mostly women) who account for over 90 percent of the national food. They farm an average of 1 to 2 hectares per smallholder, usually with little or limited mechanization, access to fertilizers, and preservation or storage facilities. Average prevalence of food inadequacy and domestic food price volatility...
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security
nigeria
sustainable
Study finds native Olympia oysters more resilient to ocean acidification
2016-06-12 00:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
PhysOrg: Unlike the commercially raised Pacific oysters, Olympia oysters don't begin making their shells until 2-3 days after fertilization and make them far more slowly, which helps protect them from corrosive water during this critical development phase, said Oregon State University's George Waldbusser, principal investigator on the project. Pacific oysters, on the other hand, only have a six-hour window to develop their calcium carbonate shell, and when exposed to acidified water, their energy stores...
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native
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CODE Takes Next Steps Toward More Sophisticated, Resilient, And Collaborative Unmanned Air Systems
2016-06-07 03:33:08| rfglobalnet Home Page
DARPA’s Collaborative Operations in Denied Environment (CODE) program seeks to help the U.S. military’s unmanned aircraft systems (UASs) conduct dynamic, long-distance engagements of highly mobile ground and maritime targets in denied or contested electromagnetic airspace, all while reducing required communication bandwidth and cognitive burden on human supervisors.
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