Small private irrigation: Enhancing benefits and managing trade-offs

Agricultural Water Management

Volumn 131, Issue , 2014, Pages 175-182

  Giordano, Meredith ^a   de Fraiture, Charlotte ^b  

^a INTERNATIONAL WATER MANAGEMENT INSTITUTE   (Sri Lanka)

^b UNESCO IHE INSTITUTE FOR WATER EDUCATION   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Africa; Economics; Motors; Pumps; Smallholders; South Asia

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; INSTITUTIONAL CAPACITIES; INTERVENTION STRATEGY; MARKET INEFFICIENCIES; SMALLHOLDER FARMERS; SMALLHOLDERS; SOUTH ASIA; SUPPORTIVE POLICIES;

COMMERCE; ECONOMICS; FOOD SUPPLY; MOTORS; PUMPS; TECHNOLOGY;

IRRIGATION;

DECISION MAKING; FOOD SECURITY; IRRIGATION; POVERTY ALLEVIATION; SMALLHOLDER; TECHNOLOGY ADOPTION;

SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

EID: 84888004870     PISSN: 03783774     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.agwat.2013.07.003     Document Type: Article

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