Drought impacts and related risk management by smallholder farmers in developing countries: Evidence from Awash River Basin, Ethiopia

Risk Management

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 247-263

  Murendo, Conrad ^a   Keil, Alwin ^b   Zeller, Manfred ^b  

^a International Crops Research Institute for the Semi Arid Tropics   (Zimbabwe)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HOHENHEIM   (Germany)

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EID: 84855167416     PISSN: 14603799     EISSN: 17434637     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/rm.2011.17     Document Type: Article

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