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The habitat of tsetse fly (Glossina spp.) depends upon climatic conditions, host
availability and land cover characteristics. In this paper, the Land Cover Classification
System (LCCS), developed by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the
United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), is proposed as a tool to harmonize
land cover mapping exercises carried out in the context of tsetse and trypanosomiasis
(T&T) research and control. Habitat modifications are
increasingly induced by human actions, either at a global scale, as in the case of climatic
change, or at a local scale, as in the processes of urbanization and agricultural expansion.
The challenges posed in the future by trypanosomiasis are likely to be shaped by those
factors to the extent that no appropriate intervention can possibly be contemplated
without considering them.
