The large-scale irrigation potential of the lower Rufiji floodplain: Reality or persistent myth?

Shared Waters, Shared Opportunities: Hydropolitics in East Africa

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 219-234

  Hamerlynck, Olivier ^a   Duvail, Stéphanie ^b   Hoag, Heather ^c   Yanda, Pius ^d   Paul, Jean Luc ^b  

^a CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^b Institute of Research for Development   (Kenya)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SAN FRANCISCO   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF DAR ES SALAAM   (Tanzania)

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