The team

We are a team of scientists from the World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF) and the University of Copenhagen (UCPH) with a special interest in the development and promotion of sustainable use practices and conservation of natural resources, with a special focus on agroforestry and forestry.

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Jens-Peter B. Lillesø, Roeland Kindt, Lars Graudal , Paulo van Breugel , Ramni Jamnadass

  1. Forest, Nature and Biomass, department of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management (IGN), University of Copenhagen (UCPH)
  2. World Agroforestry (CIFOR-ICRAF)
  3. Applied Geo-information science, HAS green academy), University of Applied Sciences.
  4. Innovative Bio-monitoring research group (IBM)

Partners

The following persons and institutes have made important contributions to the vegetation map and other products presented on this website:

Burundi, Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia

Ethiopia

  • Sebsebe Demissew (The National Herbarium, Addis Ababa University)
  • Ib Friis (Natural History Museum of Denmark, Botany)

Kenya

  • Francis Gachathi (Kenya Forestry Research Institute, KEFRI)

Malawi

  • Cornell Dudley (University of Malawi - retired)

Rwanda

  • C.K. Ruffo (Institute of Scientific and Technological Research)
  • M. Védaste (Institute of Scientific and Technological Research)

Tanzania

  • F. Mbago (University of Dar es Salaam)
  • H.N. Moshi (University of Dar es Salaam)
  • Henry Ndangalasi (University of Dar es Salaam)

Uganda

  • James Kalema (Department of Botany, Makerere University)
  • J.W. Mulumba (Entebbe Botanical Gardens, National Agricultural Research Organisation)
  • Namaganda (Entebbe Botanical Gardens, National Agricultural Research Organisation)

Zambia

  • Mike Bingham (private consultant)

Acknowledgement

Version 2.0

  • The expansion of the Vegetationmap4africa map to Burundi was supported by the Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR) through support to the project Improving Sustainable Productivity in Farming Systems and Enhanced Livelihoods through Adoption of Evergreen * Agriculture in Eastern Africa (FSC/2012/014), implemented by the World Agroforestry Centre.
  • The map include contributions from the Ph.D. project ‘Changing environments under future climates’ funded by Danida.
  • Updates and improvements to the species distribution and species selection tools were made possible thanks to support from the CGIAR Research Program on Forests, Trees and Agroforestry (FTA; supported by the CGIAR Fund Donors).
  • Development and maintenance of the website and the online, offline and mobile maps by Ecodiv.earth.

Version 1.1

  • This version incorporated contributions from the Ph.D. project ‘Changing environments under future climates’ funded by Danida. The preparation of the national atlases were made possible thanks to support from CGIAR Research Program CCAFS.
  • Updates and improvements to the species distribution and species selection tools were made possible thanks to support from the CGIAR Research Program on Forests, Trees and Agroforestry (FTA; supported by the CGIAR Fund Donors).

Version 1.0

  • The first version of the map was developed by the VECEA project, made possible thanks to funding from the Rockefeller Foundation.
  • The project furthermore benefited from:
    • Previous support from Danida to botanists at the relevant departments of the universities of Makerere in Uganda and Dar es Salaam in Tanzania via the ENRECA programme,
    • Support from SIDA/SAREC and grants from the Carlsberg Foundation to the Ethiopian Flora Project.
    • Support from UNEP-GEF to the Carbon Benefits Project (CBP) through which information was compiled on indicator and characteristic species for the Vegetation Map of Africa (White 1983). (This work led to the publication in 2011 of an Africa-wide tree species selection tool that is available from: http://www.worldagroforestrycentre.org/our_products/databases/useful-tree-species-africa) .
    • Support from BMZ for funding the ReACCT project in Tanzania through which funding was made available for field verification of the Vegetationmap4africa map around Morogoro (this was essential in preparing the Vegetationmap4africa map as the base map for Tanzania was essentially a physiognomic map.
  • We would also like to acknowledge
    • the Assistance provided by Meshack Nyabenge (ICRAF) and Jane Wanjara (ICRAF) for digitization of maps.
    • comments and suggestions that were made by Paul Smith and Jonathan Timberlake (both of Royal Botanic Gardens Kew) when they reviewed early drafts of volumes 2, 3, 4 & 5.
    • Contributions from colleagues in our institutions who contributed directly or indirectly to the completion of the Vegetationmap4africa vegetation map and its associated documentation. We especially appreciate the assistance by Nelly Mutio (as for organizing logistics for the regional workshop that we organized in 2009 and for assisting in administrative issues), Melita Jørgensen (for desktop publishing), and of Jeanette van der Steeg for helping with the final preparation of the maps for Volume 1.
  • Compilation of thematic soil maps that were derived from the soil map of Rwanda (Birasa, E.C., Bizimana, I., Bouckaert, W., Gallez, A., Maesschalck, G., and Vercruysse, J. (1992). Carte Pédologique du Rwanda. Echelle: 1/250.000. Réalisée dans le cadre du projet “Carte Pédologique du Rwanda” (AGCD, CTB). AGCD (Belgique) et MINAGRI, Kigali) by Ann Verdoodt and Eric Van Ranst (both from the University of Ghent)
  • Sharing of the digital map “Vegetation of Volcanoes National Park” by Eugene Kayijamahe from the Center for Geographic Information System and Remote Sensing at the National University of Rwanda.