Participatory rural appraisal of spate irrigation systems in eastern Eritrea

Agriculture and Human Values

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 359-370

  Tesfai, Mehretab ^a,c   De Graaff, Jan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ASMARA   (Eritrea)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c Ministry of Agriculture

Author keywords

Participatory rural appraisal; Sheeb area; Spate irrigation system

Indexed keywords

EID: 0005634329     PISSN: 0889048X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1026532120503     Document Type: Article

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