Agricultural Production and Groundwater Conservation: Examples of Good Practices in Shanxi Province, People's Republic of China
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Agricultural Production and Groundwater Conservation - Frank van Steenbergen
AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION AND GROUNDWATER CONSERVATION
Examples of Good Practices in Shanxi Province, People’s Republic of China
Frank van Steenbergen, Frank Radstake, Fan Guisheng, and Zhang Wenzhong
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Agricultural production and groundwater conservation: Examples of good practices in Shanxi province, People’s Republic of China.
Mandaluyong City, Philippines: Asian Development Bank, 2016.
1. Agricultural production. 2. Groundwater. 3. Water-saving technologies. 4. Greenhouse irrigation. 5. People’s Republic of China. I. Asian Development Bank.
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FOREWORD
Water security is one of the key global challenges for the 21st century. The Global Risks Report 2016 prepared for the World