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<font face="Calibri">Hi All,<br>
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My eye was caught by this announcement that featured in a recent
e-newsletter from TNRF:<br>
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<font face="Calibri"><strong><u>African Soil Diversity Mapped for
the First Time</u></strong><br>
By Bernard Appiah<br>
AllAfrica.com 20<sup>th</sup> May 2013<br>
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href="http://tnrf.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=10f7cad1da82f6755dd87887f&id=e8089ea43f&e=cfbe8bae8f"
style="color: #336699;font-weight: normal;text-decoration:
underline;">http://allafrica.com/stories/201305201275.html</a><br>
“A team of international experts has drawn up the Soil Atlas of
Africa - the first such book mapping this key natural resource -
to help farmers, land managers and policymakers understand the
diversity and importance of soil and the need to manage it through
sustainable use. They say that despite soil's importance, most
people in Africa lack knowledge about it, partly because
information about it tends to be confined to academic publications
read only by scientists.<br>
"There was an existing database on soil that had not been updated
by soil science experts from Africa, so we asked them to provide
us with new information, which we translated into a form
understandable to key stakeholders," says Arwyn Jones, a member of
the soil team at the Land Resource Management Unit of the European
Commission's Joint Research Centre, which produced the atlas.”<br>
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Does anyone know anything about the detail on this? The EU hosting
page
(<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://eusoils.jrc.ec.europa.eu/library/maps/africa_atlas/index.html">http://eusoils.jrc.ec.europa.eu/library/maps/africa_atlas/index.html</a>)
features PDF download options but no GIS data sets so far as I
could see.<br>
<br>
cheers, Steve<br>
________________________________________________<br>
Steve Ball<br>
Chief Technical Adviser<br>
Mpingo Conservation & Development Initiative<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.mpingoconservation.org">www.mpingoconservation.org</a><br>
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