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AfroMont is a network of scientists and environmental and resource specialists that promote research into and implementation of sustainable livelihoods in mountain areas of Africa within the context of long term climate change. It has been launched at the Kampala Workshop in July 2007. The aim is to connect and support global change researchers working in different mountain regions on the African continent.
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Proposals
FINESSE Proposal, January 2010
On 14 January 2010, a consortium of 22 institutions, half from Europe, half from Africa, and coordinated by MRI submitted the African Applied Land System Science (FINESSE) proposal to the FP7 2010 Africa call ENV-2010.2.1.1-1 Integrated Management of Water and Other Natural Resources in Africa. The consortium includes many of the participants in MRI's Global Change Research Network for African Mountains as well as several participants from the Global Land Project. The project, which seeks 3.5 million€ from the EU, joins three key intellectual threads - ecosystem modeling, institutional analysis and collaboration with stakeholders - to create an approach to integrated natural resource management in diverse African ecosystems. The consortium met in a project design workshop in Aeschi, Switzerland on 17-19 November 2009 , presentations from which are viewable on the MRI website. The EU will publish evaluation results in April 2010. The winning proposal project will start in early 2011.
Status June 2010
The proposal was not selected for funding.
Contact
Greg Greenwood, green@giub.unibe.ch
JRS Proposal 14/3/2008
Concept:
This project is a collaboration between the University of Pretoria,South Africa, and the Global Mountain Biodiversity Assessment (GMBA) ofDIVERSITAS, University of Basel, Switzerland. The project addresses astrong need for stronger collaboration in communication, datastandardisation and data interpretation with respect to the informationon biodiversity, climate and physiography that is being collected onsix of the major African mountain ranges. This follows theimplementation of a number of so-called "mountain observatories" inAfrica, initiated by the Mountain Research Initiative and GMBA. TheUniversity of Pretoria is in a strong position to take the lead in suchan initiative because of strong links with many African countries, acomplete set of scientific and technical infrastructure and since asignificant part of tertiary training for the whole continent takesplace in South Africa.
We propose a system for the communication and interpretation of biodiversity data emanating from these six mountain ranges of Africa,for the worldwide dissemination of this information and making itavailable to the Global Change Research community through open access.The platform will provide linkage of already existing datasets to datasharing networks such as GBIF, whereas new biodiversity datasets willbe collected in parallel with climatic data at the same sites. Inseveral cases altitudinal transects are being implemented. This createsunique opportunities for the interpretation of biodiversity status andtrends within the context of climate change iin African mountain ranges- information that is urgently needed to inform decision makers,conservation planners and the global community in general.
Proposal to JRS Biodiversity Foundation 2008 116.78 Kb
Status:
The proposal was submitted to JRS in summer 2008, but did not get funded.
Contact:
Willem Ferguson, University of Pretoria willemferguson@zoology.up.ac.za
Eva Spehn, GMBA gmba@unibas.ch
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