Publications Hein Bouwmeester

2011: Cassava mosaic disease (CMD) seriously affects cassava yields in Africa. We compared
the spatial distribution of CMD using three independent surveys in Rwanda and Burundi.
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2010: Although bananas are one of the most important staple crops for the African peoples,
very little is known on where and how bananas are produced. I coordinated the collection
of geospatial data on banana production in Africa from national experts and agricultural ministries,
merged this data into a GIS and published it on the internet as the an interactive WebGIS.
Take a look at the Banana Open Access Platform (BOAP)

2010: Cassava is one of the main crops in East Africa. Yields are seriously affected
by the diseases CMD and CBSD. This report presents the geographical spread of the diseases
in Burundi, Democratic Republic of Congo, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda
and was written for the Great Lakes Cassava Initiative (GLCI).
download mapping report as pdf

2010: Pests and diseases of bananas threaten the livelihoods of over 20 million
people in the Great Lakes region. Geographic information systems (GIS) provide valuable tools
in monitoring, predicting, managing and fighting the spread of pests and diseases. This paper
describes some of these tools.
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2009: Bananas are one of the main crops in the Great Lakes Region. This report
characterizes the key variables of banana based cropping systems in the region
Great Lakes Region and was written for the Consortium for Improved Agriculture-based
Livelihoods in Central Africa (CIALCA).
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2008: The weed Striga seriously affects Maize production in Malawi, Tanzania and
Uganda. This report presents livelihood characteristics of the surveyed areas within
those countries.
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2005: The soils in the Medditeranean are often thought to be suspectible to
degeneration. This paper looks at the state and at the use of soils in the Herault
Catchment in southern France and is written for Soil Conservation and Protection
in Europe (SCAPE).
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2004: Detecting soil erosion can be done in many ways. Airborne Laser Scanning
is one tool in the determination of the geographical spread and magnitude
of erosion and mass movement events. The concerted action 'Soil Conservation
and Protection in Europe' invited me to write and present: Monitoring soil
erosion from high resolution DTMs: Present possibilities and future prospects.
download briefing papers as pdf (10.5 Mb)

2003: The hilly southeastern section of the Netherlands has the potential for
severe soil erosion. This paper describes the actual erosion or rather the
potential erosion risk in Southern Limburg. The risk is based on a DTM (Digital
Terrain Model) in combination with a landuse map (LGN 4).
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2003: My master thesis concerned the revegetation of scars caused by landslides.
Slopes with clayey soils in combination with eratic rainfall are vulnarable
to land slides and mass movements in general. The vegetation on these hills
is often damaged or removed altogether. This paper tries to describe and
quantify the velocity with which this vegetation recuperates.
download master thesis as pdf