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Down to Earth: Geographic Information for Sustainable Development in Africa

TABLE 3-4 Southern African Organizations, Programs, and Activities Using Geographic Data

Organization	Applications of Geographic Data
African Wildlife Foundation	Wildlife conservation; habitat protection; landscape ecology; community-based natural resource management
Miombo Network	Land-use and land-cover change detection
Okavango Wildlife Society	Wildlife and ecological management
Program for Regional Information Sharing and Management on Environment and Sustainable Development (PRISMES), World Bank	Natural resource management
Community Based Natural Resource Management (CBNRM) Program (Namibia)	Ecosystem management; wildlife
Geologic Survey (Namibia)	Mineral resources; geological engineering; land-use planning
University of Namibia, Department of Geography and Environmental Studies	Physical and human geography; environmental planning; regional studies
Regional Centre for Southern Africa	Natural resources management; agriculture
World Wildlife Foundation’s Living in a Finite Environment Programme (Namibia)	Natural resource management
World Wildlife Fund’s Communal Areas Management Programme for Indigenous Resources (CAMPFIRE Programme) (Zimbabwe)	Natural resource management
Food, Agriculture and Natural Resources (FANR) Development Unit (Zimbabwe)	Food security; natural resource management; early warning; vulnerability assessment
Desert Research Foundation of Namibia	Desertification; ecosystem function and structure
National Forest Research Center (Namibia)	Desertification; forestry; remote sensing; horticulture
SAFARI 2000	Land-atmosphere processes
Southern African Fire Network (SAFNET)	Monitoring burned areas (natural and anthropogenic fires)
Flood Hazard Monitoring (Mozambique)	Flood prediction models; rainfall analysis
Institute for Fisheries Management and Coastal Community Development (IFM)	Fisheries management and development

SUMMARY

Africa’s geographic information community is diverse and growing. This chapter highlights some of the applications of geographic data to environmental and developmental challenges. The next chapter explores how these diverse activities can be linked together through spatial data and telecommunications infrastructures.

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CRSP (Cooperative Research Support Programs). 2002. Historical Perspectives and U.S. Government Policy. Available at <http://crsps.unl.edu/whycrsps.htm>. Accessed May 7, 2002.

FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization). 2002. Available at <http://www.fao.org/>. Accessed May 20, 2002.

FEWS NET (Famine Early Warning System Network). 2002. Available at <http://www.fews.net/>. Accessed May 20, 2002.

GISD (Geographic Information for Sustainable Development). 2001. Available at <http://www.opengis.org/gisd/> Accessed May 20, 2002.

LEWS (Livestock Early Warning System). 2001. Available at <http://cnrit.tamu.edu/lews/description.html> Accessed May 20, 2002.

RCMRD (Regional Centre for Mapping of Resources for Development). 2002. Available at <http://www.rcmrd.org/AboutUS/AboutUSIndex.htm>. Accessed June 25, 2002.