While Tropical Forages: an Interactive Selection Tool is the result of extensive collaboration between people and organisations from across the world over the past 3 years, a number of contributions require special mention:

No project can succeed without funding. We are grateful to ACIAR, BMZ¹, GTZ and DFID² who provided the major funding for the project, with support from the partner research agencies, CSIRO, DPI&F (Qld), ILRI and CIAT.

The many people who gave generously of their time and shared their experience at the workshops in Bangkok (Thailand), Addis Ababa (Ethiopia), Cali (Colombia), Stuttgart (Germany) and Brisbane (Australia).

Matthew Taylor (CBIT, Univ. of Qld) for adaptation of the Lucid™ platform to the specific needs of the Tropical Forages database, and software development advice.

Ginevre Marlow (CBIT, Univ. of Qld) for graphic design.

Alan Robertson, Werner Stür, Bela (Bert) Grof, Arthur Cameron and Trevor Hall for their contributions to the fine-tuning of the selection tool.

Chaisang Phaikaew, Le Hoa Binh, Peter Horne and Werner Stür for their roles in coordinating meetings in S.E. Asia.

Information for fact sheets and for the selection tool was derived from many sources. Key amongst these were the FAO databases
http://www.fao.org/ag/AGP/AGPC/doc/crops/4d.html
http://www.fao.org/ag/aga/agap/frg/AFRIS/
http://ecocrop.fao.org/

and the Prosea Foundation publication, "Plant Resources of South-East Asia No 4. Forages", (eds 't Mannetje, L. and Jones, R.M) , published by Pudoc Scientific Publishers, Wageningen, the Netherlands. 300p. (Line drawings reproduced in Tropical Forages with the kind permission of the Prosea Foundation remain the copyright of the Prosea Foundation and cannot be reproduced or downloaded without permission.)

WorldClimate.com (http://www.worldclimate.com/) and Directory of Cities and Towns in World (http://www.fallingrain.com/world/) have provided valuable information in relation to climate and altitude cited in many of the fact sheets.

The magnitude of the task of writing and reviewing the 180 forage fact sheets included in Tropical Forages is reflected by the number of people involved. Their contributions are gratefully acknowledged, together with the efforts of those whom we have inadvertently, and with sincere apologies, failed to mention.

Images were collected from many institutional and private sources around the world. A small number were downloaded from the internet. All images are © Copyright, with details embedded in each image.

Large collections of photographs (usually with unnamed photographers) were provided by the following organisations:

CIAT (Colombia)
CSIRO (Australia)
DPI & F (Australia)
ILRI (Ethiopia)
NSWDPI (Australia)
Univ. of Qld (Australia)

Thanks are due to the following people who supplied photographs. Some supplied many images, and others, an essential few. The photographer, where known, is acknowledged on each photograph used.

Images that were downloaded from the internet were used with the permission of the copyright holders.

Over 8000 references have been selected by Mr John Donnelly (CSIRO) and are included in both the CD and web versions of this product. Most references were selected from the CAB Abstracts website and are used with permission of CAB International.

References may be used for normal citation purposes. However, the abstracts remain the copyright of CAB International (© 2005 CAB International) and can only be used by permission of the holder.

Thanks also to staff at the Cunningham Library, CSIRO, Brisbane, Australia, for their help in sourcing information, and in putting together the final product.

The CD-ROM version of Tropical Forages uses the freeware edition 'BiblioExpress Reference Manager' to access the more than 8000 selected references (see above).
Further information can be found at
http://www.biblioscape.com/biblioexpress.htm

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