Assessing Effectiveness and Sustainability of Communitymanaged Informal Irrigation in Africa: A Comparative Institutional Analysis of “Temporary" Irrigation in Malawi
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Keywords
Malawi ; informal irrigation ; property rights ; collective action ; effectiveness ; sustainability;All these keywords.
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-AFR-2012-04-23 (Africa)
- NEP-DEV-2012-04-23 (Development)
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