Publication of 2003 AETFAT Proceedings
The Proceedings of the 2003 AETFAT Congress have been edited and published at RBG Kew - some seventy papers in almost 800 pages of text.
In 2003 the 17th Congress of the Association for the Taxonomic Study of the Flora of Tropical Africa (AETFAT) took place in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The theme of this Congress was “Taxonomy and ecology of African plants and their conservation and sustainable use”. In all, 104 papers and posters were presented of which 60 have been included in the Proceedings. The Introduction to the Proceedings reflects the need to concentrate efforts to conserve the biodiversity of the world especially Africa, and to use the resources in a sustainable manner. Nine main topics (see contents below) which formed the nine Symposia at the Congress show the state of knowledge and research in different fields of African botany from pure taxonomy, phytogeography, ecology and conservation to implementation of the Convention on Biological Diversity in Africa. More than half of the papers in the Proceedings originate from research carried out in African institutes. Twelve papers have RBG Kew authors.
Project Team
Project Leader: Ghazanfar, Shahina
Herbarium
Henk Beentje, Shahina Ghazanfar
ISD
Gina Fullerlove, Margaret Newman
Project Partners and Collaborators
Ethiopia
Addis Ababa University, Department of Botany
Funders
Funded by fee contributions from participants to congress
Annex Material
Annex 1: AETFAT 2003 Proceedings - List of Contents (Word document)
Annex 2: Section 2 guidelines (Word document, 235KB)