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Water erosion assessment using farmers' indicators in the West Usambara Mountains, Tanzania

✍ Scribed by Olga Vigiak; Barrack O. Okoba; Geert Sterk; Leo Stroosnijder

Book ID
116344082
Publisher
Elsevier Science
Year
2005
Tongue
English
Weight
276 KB
Volume
64
Category
Article
ISSN
0341-8162

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