Building capacity within biodiversity data between Ethiopia and GBIF nodes in Sweden and Finland

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Coffea arabica
Arabica coffee (Coffea arabica L.) observed in Borena, Oromia, Ethiopia by Mitiku Muanenda (CC BY-NC 4.0)

Biodiversity is crucial for maintaining a healthy environment, ensuring food security, and building resilience, especially in developing countries such as Ethiopia. Rich in biodiversity and traditional farming systems, Ethiopia hosts the Eastern Afromontane biodiversity hotspot as well as the Horn of Africa biodiversity hotspot, which are critical for the Arabica coffee wild gene pool, but one of the least developed globally. Conserving biodiversity in Ethiopia requires robust evidence, skills, and policies, and quality data production and effective mobilization to data aggregators like GBIF are essential.

The biodiversity data in Ethiopia is available in fragmented forms across various institutions, limiting access, especially for policymakers and practitioners. This bottleneck is largely due to the need for skills in developing and managing databases and making data available in an integrated manner at national, regional, and global scales. In addition, there is a shortage of analytical skills in producing quality scientific data and knowledge.

This project aims to extend the work initiated in 2017 by the EU-funded GBIF Biodiversity Information for Development project BIDERSE and to address challenges by providing capacity-building training and knowledge transfer, enabling stakeholders to mobilize, manage, and use data according to global best practices. The key stakeholders identified for establishing a national biodiversity platform will act as a basis for this initiative.

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Duration
1 décembre 2024 - 31 mai 2026
Project identifier
CESP2024-013
Funded by
Project lead
GBIF Sweden
Contact details

Veronika Johansson
The Swedish Museum of Natural History
Frescativägen 40
104 05 Stockholm
Sweden

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