GeoSaf (Geomatic technologies transferred to animal health services in southern Africa) is a project accepted and funded by European Union, ACP group of states. Started in January 2014, the global objectives are to improve surveillance and control of vectors (ticks and tsetse flies) and the diseases they transmit by the capacitation of veterinary services in geomatics tools in Zimbabwe, Mozambique and Botswana. The project will end in 2017.

Through this project, 6 veterinary officers are engaged in post graduate studies. Gerald Chikowore (see more here) has just finalized his Master (MPhil)  in August 2016 and was graduated in September 2016.

He was working on modelling the spatial distribution and abundance of tsetse in Masoka, an unexplored part of Mbire district in Zimbabwe and his first scientific paper is in progress. More about it soon.

Laure Guerrini, Coordinator of GeosAf