Dr. Jide Kufoniyi joined the AGCommons outreach activities in Accra, Ghana. Dr. Kufoniyi, a member of the AGCommons Steering Committee, recently completed a term as Executive Director of RECTAS (Regional Center for Training in Aerospace Surveys) and is now with Obafemi Awolowo University in Nigeria. Jide made an excellent addition to our team, providing great insight, local experience, and great connections with the people we were meeting with in Accra. He was able to jump right in and provide excellent introduction and insight to the project. The outreach team benefitted from his strong background in geosciences and positions of leadership within the African geospatial community.
He was also able to inform key stakeholders and members of the local geospatial community about the investment Nigeria has made in remote sensing technology and how they can take advantage of the image products being generated by the program. Through the outreach design, we were able to meet with a large number of stakeholders across the agricultural value chain.
The series of meetings provided Jide and the AGCommons implementation team with a solid understanding for location-specific information needed to help Ghanaian farmers and which efforts are already underway that can be built upon.
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