Innovative land and water management approaches in Asia: Productivity impacts, adoption prospects and poverty outreach

Irrigation and Drainage

Volumn 56, Issue 2-3, 2007, Pages 335-348

  Namara, Regassa E ^a   Hussain, Intizar ^b   Bossio, Deborah ^a   Verma, Shilp ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL WATER MANAGEMENT INSTITUTE   (Sri Lanka)

^b International Network on Participatory Irrigation Management INPIM   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

Adoption; Asia; Land productivity; Micro irrigation; Poverty; SRI; Water productivity

Indexed keywords

CITRULLUS LANATUS VAR. LANATUS;

EID: 34247182127     PISSN: 15310353     EISSN: 15310361     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ird.308     Document Type: Article

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