Drivers of change in agricultural water productivity and its improvement at basin scale in developing economies

Water International

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 312-325

  Kumar, M Dinesh ^a   van Dam, Jos C ^b  

^a Institute for Resource Analysis and Policy (IRAP)   (India)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

basin water use efficiency; productivity; real water savings; resilience

Indexed keywords

EID: 84879136749     PISSN: 02508060     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02508060.2013.793572     Document Type: Article

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