Low-cost options for reducing consumer health risks from farm to fork where crops are irrigated with polluted water in West Africa

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Low-cost options for reducing consumer health risks from farm to fork where crops are irrigated with polluted water in West Africa. / Amoah, Philip; Keraita, Bernard; Akple, Maxwell; Drechsel, Pay; Abaidoo, Robert; Konradsen, Flemming.

1 udg. Colombo Sri Lanka : International Water Management Institute, 2011. 45 s. (IWMI Research Report, Bind 141).

Publikation: Bog/antologi/afhandling/rapportBogfagfællebedømt

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Amoah, P, Keraita, B, Akple, M, Drechsel, P, Abaidoo, R & Konradsen, F 2011, Low-cost options for reducing consumer health risks from farm to fork where crops are irrigated with polluted water in West Africa. IWMI Research Report, bind 141, 1 udg, International Water Management Institute, Colombo Sri Lanka. https://doi.org/10.5337/2011.201

APA

Amoah, P., Keraita, B., Akple, M., Drechsel, P., Abaidoo, R., & Konradsen, F. (2011). Low-cost options for reducing consumer health risks from farm to fork where crops are irrigated with polluted water in West Africa. (1 udg.) International Water Management Institute. IWMI Research Report Bind 141 https://doi.org/10.5337/2011.201

Vancouver

Amoah P, Keraita B, Akple M, Drechsel P, Abaidoo R, Konradsen F. Low-cost options for reducing consumer health risks from farm to fork where crops are irrigated with polluted water in West Africa. 1 udg. Colombo Sri Lanka: International Water Management Institute, 2011. 45 s. (IWMI Research Report, Bind 141). https://doi.org/10.5337/2011.201

Author

Amoah, Philip ; Keraita, Bernard ; Akple, Maxwell ; Drechsel, Pay ; Abaidoo, Robert ; Konradsen, Flemming. / Low-cost options for reducing consumer health risks from farm to fork where crops are irrigated with polluted water in West Africa. 1 udg. Colombo Sri Lanka : International Water Management Institute, 2011. 45 s. (IWMI Research Report, Bind 141).

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