Agriculture: Increase water harvesting in Africa

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• Publication year

  2015

• Venue

  Nature

• Publication date

  2015-03-18

• Fields of study

  Agricultural and Food Sciences, Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1038/519283aPMID 25788079
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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