Water resource implications of upgrading rainfed agriculture - focus on green and blue water trade-offs

Rainfed Agriculture: Unlocking the Potential

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 44-53

  Karlberg, L ^a   Rockstrom J ^a   Falkenmark, M ^b  

^a STOCKHOLM ENVIRONMENT INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b Stockholm International Water Institute (SIWI)   (Sweden)

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