Dr. Francis Muthoni is a GIS and Remote Sensing Scientist with over 20 years of experience in geospatial science. Francis holds a PhD in Spatial Ecology from the University of Twente, Netherlands (2014). He holds an MSc in Geo-Information and Earth Observation in Environmental Modelling and Management from University of Twente (2010) and a BA degree in Geography from Moi University, Kenya (2003). He joined IITA as a Postdoctoral Fellow– GIS specialist in 2015. From 2022 to 2025, he led a global work package on monitoring the status, trends, and dynamics of the mixed farming systems in the global south. His research interests integrate field and earth observation data using artificial intelligence and process-based models to develop spatially explicit decision support tools and early warning systems to support evidence-based natural resource management and climate change adaptation in socio-ecological systems. His other research interests include spatial-temporal monitoring trends of land degradation, climate change, crop yields, and species distribution modelling. He applies systems dynamic models to promote understanding of complex interactions and feedbacks in agroecosystems that are necessary to evaluate alternative policy scenarios. consultant for the GFA Consulting Group on an IGAD project (April to June 2015). Previously he was a GIS Officer at the University of Cambridge Laikipia Elephant Project (2007 to 2008).