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Participatory rural appraisal of spate irrigation systems in eastern Eritrea

✍ Scribed by Mehretab Tesfai; Jan de Graaff


Book ID
111564442
Publisher
Springer
Year
2000
Tongue
English
Weight
169 KB
Volume
17
Category
Article
ISSN
0889-048X

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