The importance of flexibility: An analysis of the large-scale Tana-delta irrigation project in Kenya, implemented under an estate system

Shared Waters, Shared Opportunities: Hydropolitics in East Africa

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 261-284

  Lebrun, Delphine ^a   Hamerlynck, Olivier ^b   Duvail, Stéphanie ^c   Nyunja, Judith ^d  

^a Centre for Ecology and Hydrology ^*

^b CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^c Institute of Research for Development   (Kenya)

^d KENYA WILDLIFE SERVICE   (Kenya)

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