Water implications of foreign direct investment in Ethiopia's agricultural sector

Water Alternatives

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 223-242

  Bossio, Deborah ^a   Erkossa, Teklu ^b   Dile, Yihun ^c   McCartney, Matthew ^b   Killiches, Franziska ^c,d   Hoff, Holger ^c,d  

^a International Institute for Tropical Agriculture   (Kenya)

^b INTERNATIONAL WATER MANAGEMENT INSTITUTE   (Ethiopia)

^c STOCKHOLM RESILIENCE CENTRE   (Sweden)

^d POTSDAM INSTITUTE FOR CLIMATE IMPACT RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Crop water requirements; Ethiopia; Foreign direct investment; Lease agreements

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL LAND; FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT; IRRIGATION SYSTEM; WATER AVAILABILITY; WATER ECONOMICS; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER USE; WATER YIELD;

ETHIOPIA;

EID: 84871427593     PISSN: 19650175     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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