Conserving land— protecting water

Water for Food Water for Life: A Comprehensive Assessment of Water Management in Agriculture

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 551-584

  Bossio, Deborah ^a   Critchley, William ^b   Geheb, Kim ^c   van Lynden, Godert ^d   Mati, Bancy ^e   Bhushan, Pranita ^f   Hellin, Jon ^f   Jacks, Gunnar ^f   Kolff, Annette ^f   Nachtergaele, Freddy ^f   Neely, Constance ^f   Peden, Don ^g   Rubiano, Jorge ^f   Shepherd, Gemma ^f   Valentin, Christian ^f   Walsh, Markus ^f  

^a INTERNATIONAL WATER MANAGEMENT INSTITUTE   (Sri Lanka)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

^d World Soil Museum   (Netherlands)

^e JOMO KENYATTA UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Kenya)

^f International Livestock Research Institute ^*

^g INTERNATIONAL LIVESTOCK RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Ethiopia)

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DOI: 10.4324/9781849773799     Document Type: Chapter

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