{"id":12310,"date":"2026-06-09T18:31:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T18:31:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.iita.org\/staff\/geoffrey-guemey-nsofon\/"},"modified":"2026-06-09T18:31:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T18:31:13","slug":"geoffrey-guemey-nsofon","status":"publish","type":"staff","link":"https:\/\/iita.org\/fr\/staff\/geoffrey-guemey-nsofon\/","title":{"rendered":"Geoffrey Guemey Nsofon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><b>Geoffrey Nsofon,\u00a0<\/b>a Cameroonian<b>,\u00a0<\/b>is the\u00a0<span lang=\"en-GB\">TAAT Private Sector Engagement Officer of the TAAT Clearinghouse (CH) based in Cotonou, Benin Republic.\u00a0<\/span>He holds a B.Sc. in Economics &amp; an M.Sc. in Agribusiness Economics from the Faculty of Economics and Management, and an \u201c<i>Ing\u00e9nieur Agronome<\/i>\u201d Diploma from the Faculty of Agronomy and Agricultural Sciences from the University of Dschang, Cameroon. He is currently completing a Ph.D. program in Agriculture and Natural Resources Economics at the University of Yaound\u00e9-II.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span lang=\"en-GB\">Il\u00a0<\/span>is an Agribusiness Economist with a strong interest in Business Development in Agriculture and the role the private sector plays in transforming the economy of Africa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He first came to IITA, as an M.Sc. intern with the Sustainable Tree Crop Project (STCP) in IITA Cameroon (2004-2006) before working as a consultant in rural income generation for the Tree Crop Production, Marketing, and Livelihood project (2007-2009) and Coordinator- Strengthening Smallholder\/Agribusiness Relationships -FAO micro-grant Project44975 (2009-2011).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He returned to IITA as the Business Development Officer for ENABLE Youth Cameroon from February 2019, till he joined the TAAT Clearinghouse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Prior to that, he was the Sub-director of Community Development in the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development in Cameroon from 2011 to 2019, actively promoting cooperatives and rural entrepreneurship in the country.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Geoffrey Nsofon,\u00a0a Cameroonian,\u00a0is the\u00a0TAAT Private Sector Engagement Officer of the TAAT Clearinghouse (CH) based in Cotonou, Benin Republic.\u00a0He holds a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":12311,"template":"","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"no-sidebar","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"full-width-container","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"disabled","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"disabled","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"disabled","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"default","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":[],"ast-content-background-meta":[]},"science-area":[],"program":[],"location":[26],"hub":[61],"crop":[],"staff-type":[],"class_list":["post-12310","staff","type-staff","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","location-benin","hub-western-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iita.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/staff\/12310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iita.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/staff"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iita.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/staff"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/iita.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/staff\/12310\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iita.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iita.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"science-area","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iita.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/science-area?post=12310"},{"taxonomy":"program","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iita.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/program?post=12310"},{"taxonomy":"location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iita.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/location?post=12310"},{"taxonomy":"hub","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iita.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hub?post=12310"},{"taxonomy":"crop","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iita.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/crop?post=12310"},{"taxonomy":"staff-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iita.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/staff-type?post=12310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}