The synthesis chapter of this paper was written collectively by Harald Winkler, T.
Jayaraman, Jiahua Pan, Adriano Santhiago de Oliveira, Yongsheng Zhang, Girish Sant,
Jose Domingos Gonzalez Miguez, Thapelo Letete, Andrew Marquard, and Stefan
Raubenheimer. It is based on discussions (including also several other experts) attending
meetings of the BASIC Expert Forum over six meetings from July 2010 to October 2011.
The authors of the country chapters are experts from the respective countries, and
indicated by name or organisation in the respective chapter.