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Farmers' identification of erosion indicators and related erosion damage in the Central Highlands of Kenya

✍ Scribed by Barrack Ouma Okoba; Geert Sterk

Book ID: 116344115
Publisher: Elsevier Science
Year: 2006
Tongue: English
Weight: 249 KB
Volume: 65
Category: Article
ISSN: 0341-8162
DOI: 10.1016/j.catena.2005.12.004

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