Developing capacity for agricultural water management: Current practice and future directions

Irrigation and Drainage

Volumn 57, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 255-267

  Franks, Tom ^a   Garcés Restrepo, Carlos ^b   Putuhena, Ferry ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRADFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNITED NATIONS   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITI MALAYSIA SARAWAK   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Capacity development; Farmers; Knowledge management; Organisations; Policy environment

Indexed keywords

EID: 47849122713     PISSN: 15310353     EISSN: 15310361     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ird.433     Document Type: Review

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