A participatory approach for hydrometeorological monitoring in the Blue Nile river basin of Ethiopia

IWMI Research Report

Volumn 155, Issue , 2014, Pages 1-24

  Zemadim, Birhanu ^a   Mccartney, Matthew ^b   Langan, Simon ^c   Sharma, Bharat ^d  

^a West and Central Africa Office International Crops Research Institute for the Semi Arid Tropics (ICRISAT)   (Ethiopia)

^b Southeast Asia Office   (Ethiopia)

^c Nile Basin Office of IWMI in Addis Ababa   (Ethiopia)

^d IWMI India at the New Delhi Office   (Ethiopia)

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EID: 84898774669     PISSN: 10260862     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5337/2014.200     Document Type: Article

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