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Tony’s final years of service: Under-priced food for under-paid people: water accounting, governance and the food system

Irrigated agriculture: more than ‘big water’ and ‘accountants will [not] save the world’

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Pages 1155-1164 | Received 28 Mar 2022, Accepted 09 Jun 2022, Published online: 17 Nov 2022

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