The Foreign Service Journal, February 2013

78 FEBRUARY 2013 | THE FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL LOCAL LENS BY ALDA KAUFFELD n TAKEN WITH A NIKON D7000. Enter your photography to be featured in Local Lens! Images must be high resolution (at least 300 dpi at 8 x 10”). Please submit a short description of the scene/event, as well as your name, brief biodata and the type of camera used t o locallens@afsa.org. T hese young men in Kparigu are transporting harvested soybeans by bicycle to a local market. In remote areas of northern Ghana, where transportation options are limited, farm families use any means at their disposal to move their products to market. USAID, through Feed the Future, supports Ghanaian farmers to improve the quantity and quality of their agriculture production, improving local livelihoods. n Alda Kauffeld is a Foreign Service spouse posted in Accra, where she is a local hire personal services contractor with USAID, serving as a develop- ment outreach coordinator. She is also a professional photographer, and was just awarded the “Best in Show” for the Art in Embassies “Through Their Eyes” worldwide Defense Department and State Department Photography Contest. Go to http://aldakauffeld.imagekind.com/ to see more of her photos. KPARIGU, GHANA