Inquiry, initiative and inventiveness: Farmer innovators in East Africa

Physics and Chemistry of the Earth, Part B: Hydrology, Oceans and Atmosphere

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 285-288

  Critchley, W R S ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INNOVATION; SOIL CONSERVATION; TRADITIONAL KNOWLEDGE; WATER MANAGEMENT;

AFRICA;

EID: 0034110483     PISSN: 14641909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1464-1909(00)00016-2     Document Type: Conference Paper

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