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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Hi Steve,<br>
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I am pretty sure that they have used the Tanzania GIS shapefile
that is downloadable from the <a
href="http://192.156.137.110/gis/">ILRI website</a>, which is
based on the FAO Classification.<br>
<br>
Regards,<br>
Mike<br>
<br>
On 27/05/2013 15:07, Steve Ball wrote:<br>
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<font face="Calibri">Hi All,<br>
<br>
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>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
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>
<br>
Does anyone know anything about the detail on this? The EU
hosting page (<a moz-do-not-send="true"
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 moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated"
href="http://www.mpingoconservation.org">www.mpingoconservation.org</a><br>
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