Participatory management: Would it be a turning point in the history of the Gezira scheme?

Irrigation and Drainage

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 429-436

  Abdelhadi, A W ^a,c   Adam, H S ^b   Hassan, Mohamed A ^c   Hata, Takeshi ^d  

^a Gezira Research Station   (Sudan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GEZIRA   (Sudan)

^c AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH CORPORATION   (Sudan)

^d KOBE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Farmers' field schools; Farmers' training; Participatory water management; Water delivery

Indexed keywords

EID: 17144398917     PISSN: 15310353     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ird.139     Document Type: Article

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