Smallholder system innovation for integrated watershed management in Sub-Saharan Africa

Agricultural Water Management

Volumn 98, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 1683-1686

  Bossio, Deborah ^a   Jewitt, Graham ^b   van der Zaag, Pieter ^c,d  

^a INTERNATIONAL WATER MANAGEMENT INSTITUTE   (Sri Lanka)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

^c UNESCO IHE INSTITUTE FOR WATER EDUCATION   (Netherlands)

^d DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

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EID: 80051977621     PISSN: 03783774     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.agwat.2011.07.006     Document Type: Editorial

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