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Grasslands of the World.pdf - Disasters and Conflicts - UNEP

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CRSP Collaborative Research Support Program (United States<br />

<strong>of</strong> America)<br />

CSIRO Commonwealth Scientific <strong>and</strong> Industrial Research<br />

Organization<br />

CYE comparative yield estimate<br />

DGR daily growth rates<br />

DLWG daily liveweight gain<br />

DSS decision support system<br />

DWR dry weight rank<br />

EEA/EEPRI Ethiopian Economic Association/Ethiopian Economic<br />

Policy Research Institute<br />

ENSO El Niño-Sou<strong>the</strong>rn Oscillation<br />

ephemeroids Russian term denoting perennials whose vegetative parts<br />

die down annually (e.g. Poa bulbosa)<br />

foggage reserved st<strong>and</strong>ing herbage for grazing after <strong>the</strong> growing<br />

season<br />

FO forage <strong>of</strong>fer<br />

FSAU Food Security Analysis Unit (Somalia)<br />

FSU former Soviet Union<br />

garrigue low growing secondary vegetation with aromatic herbs<br />

<strong>and</strong> prickly dwarf shrubs in <strong>the</strong> Mediterranean basin<br />

GEF Global Environment Facility<br />

ger Mongolian herders mobile felt dwelling (Russian yurt)<br />

GIS geographical information system<br />

GLASOD Global Assessment <strong>of</strong> Soil Degradation (global study<br />

published in 1990 by <strong>the</strong> <strong>UNEP</strong> <strong>and</strong> <strong>the</strong> International<br />

Soil Reference <strong>and</strong> Information Centre in cooperation<br />

with <strong>the</strong> Win<strong>and</strong> Staring Centre, <strong>the</strong> International Society<br />

<strong>of</strong> Soil Science, FAO <strong>and</strong> <strong>the</strong> International Institute for<br />

Aerospace Survey <strong>and</strong> Earth Sciences)<br />

GSSA Grassl<strong>and</strong> Society <strong>of</strong> Sou<strong>the</strong>rn Africa<br />

GTZ Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit<br />

HPG high performance grazing<br />

HUG high utilization grazing<br />

IBP International Biological Program<br />

IEA Instituto Ecologia Applicata, Rome, Italy<br />

IGAD Intergovernmental Authority on Development<br />

IGBP International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme<br />

INIA Instituto Nacional de Investigación Agropecuaria<br />

INTA Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria [National<br />

Institute for Agricultural Technology, Argentina]<br />

IFEVA-UBA Instituto de Investicaciones Fisiológicas y Ecológicas –<br />

Universidad de Buenos Aires (Argentina)<br />

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