Potential and Constraints to the Adoption of Water Harvesting Technologies in Traditional Economies

Discovery and Innovation

Volumn 14, Issue 3-4, 2002, Pages 202-214

  Nji, Ajaga ^a   Fonteh, Mathias Fru ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DSCHANG   (Cameroon)

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