Lessons learned with an integrated approach for capacity development in agricultural land drainage

Irrigation and Drainage

Volumn 57, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 354-365

  Ritzema, Henk ^a   Wolters, Wouter ^a   Terwisscha van Scheltinga, Catharien ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Agricultural land drainage; Capacity development; Knowledge creation; Research; Training

Indexed keywords

EID: 47849094578     PISSN: 15310353     EISSN: 15310361     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ird.431     Document Type: Article

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