Sub-saharan Africa: Opportunistic exploitation

The Agricultural Groundwater Revolution: Opportunities and Threats to Development

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 79-99

  Masiyandima, Mutsa ^a   Giordano, Mark F ^b  

^a INTERNATIONAL WATER MANAGEMENT INSTITUTE   (South Africa)

^b INTERNATIONAL WATER MANAGEMENT INSTITUTE   (Sri Lanka)

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