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Biblioteca Standardizing land cover mapping for tsetse and trypanosomiasis decision making

Standardizing land cover mapping for tsetse and trypanosomiasis decision making

Standardizing land cover mapping for tsetse and trypanosomiasis decision making

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Date of publication
Diciembre 1969
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ISBN / Resource ID
654589
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The habitat of tsetse fly (Glossina spp.) depends upon climatic conditions, host

availability and land cover characteristics. In this paper, the Land Cover Classification

System (LCCS), developed by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the

United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), is proposed as a tool to harmonize

land cover mapping exercises carried out in the context of tsetse and trypanosomiasis

(T&T) research and control. Habitat modifications are

increasingly induced by human actions, either at a global scale, as in the case of climatic

change, or at a local scale, as in the processes of urbanization and agricultural expansion.

The challenges posed in the future by trypanosomiasis are likely to be shaped by those

factors to the extent that no appropriate intervention can possibly be contemplated

without considering them.

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