Water harvesting and management to alleviate drought stress

Food Security and Environmental Quality in the Developing World

Volumn , Issue , 2016, Pages 245-259

  Frasier, Gary W ^a  

^a AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

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