{"id":1792,"date":"2021-11-29T11:33:45","date_gmt":"2021-11-29T11:33:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eoric.uenr.edu.gh\/?p=1792"},"modified":"2025-04-07T22:58:56","modified_gmt":"2025-04-07T22:58:56","slug":"ghana-space-science-and-technology-institute-gssit-and-eoric-hold-a-capacity-building-workshop-on-sdgs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eoric.uenr.edu.gh\/?p=1792","title":{"rendered":"GHANA SPACE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY INSTITUTE (GSSIT) AND EORIC HOLD A CAPACITY BUILDING WORKSHOP ON SDGs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The Ghana Space Science and Technology Institute (GSSIT), in partnership with the Earth Observation Research and Innovation Center (EORIC) of the University of Energy and Natural Resources, Sunyani, opened a weeklong capacity-building workshop for stakeholders in the government, private, and research sector in the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) with a focus on Water and Agriculture.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The weeklong training program aimed at training participants to use earth observation data to monitor the SDGs with a primary focus on water and agriculture.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1793\" src=\"https:\/\/eoric.uenr.edu.gh\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Training-Workshop-1024x683.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https:\/\/eoric.uenr.edu.gh\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Training-Workshop-1024x683.webp 1024w, https:\/\/eoric.uenr.edu.gh\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Training-Workshop-300x200.webp 300w, https:\/\/eoric.uenr.edu.gh\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Training-Workshop-768x512.webp 768w, https:\/\/eoric.uenr.edu.gh\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Training-Workshop.webp 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Speaking at the opening of the program, Prof. Amos T. Kabo-Bah, a lecturer at the School of Engineering, disclosed that the University has put plans in place to host an international postgraduate program on Sustainable Land Management from next year (2022). He added that the postgraduate program on Sustainable Land Management would go a long way to help farmers in the agricultural sector get better returns on their farming businesses. Stressing that countries like China are vigorously going into Cocoa farming, hence the need for Ghana to fight hard to maintain its spot as a top cocoa-growing country globally.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Stakeholders for the workshop were the Ministry of Agriculture, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Water Resources Commission, and the Earth Observation Research and Innovation Center (EORIC \u2013 UENR), with experts from the research sciences of Ghana Space Science and Technology Institute as facilitators.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ghana Space Science and Technology Institute (GSSIT), in partnership with the Earth Observation Research and Innovation Center (EORIC) of the University of Energy and Natural Resources, Sunyani, opened a weeklong capacity-building workshop for stakeholders in the government, private, and research sector in the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) with a focus on Water<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1793,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/eoric.uenr.edu.gh\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Training-Workshop.webp","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eoric.uenr.edu.gh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eoric.uenr.edu.gh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eoric.uenr.edu.gh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eoric.uenr.edu.gh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eoric.uenr.edu.gh\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1792"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eoric.uenr.edu.gh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1792\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1795,"href":"https:\/\/eoric.uenr.edu.gh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1792\/revisions\/1795"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eoric.uenr.edu.gh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eoric.uenr.edu.gh\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eoric.uenr.edu.gh\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eoric.uenr.edu.gh\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}