The Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR and World Agroforestry (ICRAF) joined forces in 2019, leveraging a combined 65 years’ experience in research on the role of forests and trees in solving critical global challenges.
The World Agroforestry (ICRAF), the lead organization in the BMP project organized a two-week training on Quantum Geographical Information System (QGIS) from the 24 April to 6 May 2016, with an objective to;
- Build the capacity of stakeholders on Geographical Information System (GIS) software and its application in biodiversity conservation
- Enable stakeholders map their biodiversity resources, analyze their status and propose possible action to ensure their sustainable use
- Share with the participants to different data formats to enable them manipulate available information for specific use. This was necessary because in some areas it is not possible to get real time information though old maps are available. Participants were trained how to digitize the information from the old maps..
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