Dealing with drought : The challenge of using water system technologies to break dryland poverty traps

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  2008

• Venue

  Global Environmental Change-human and Policy Dimensions

• Publication date

  2008-10-01

• Fields of study

  Business, Economics, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1016/J.GLOENVCHA.2008.07.006
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