Ishmael Hashmiu

Faculty Biography

Dr. Ishmael Hashmiu is a Lecturer at the Department of Agroforestry, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Kumasi, Ghana. He is a former Commonwealth Scholar. He obtained his PhD in Agroforestry from the KNUST in 2021. He also holds MSc degree in Natural Resources (Sustainable Environmental Management) from the University of Greenwich, UK, and a BSc degree in Natural Resources Management from the KNUST, Kumasi, Ghana.Dr. Hashmiu is a Sustainable Livelihood Specialist with keen interest in exploring innovative and bottom-up solutions to climate change, food insecurity, and natural resource conflicts. Another strand of his research focuses on exploring the determinants and pro-farmer policy options for enhancing agrofrestry adoption in smallholder contexts.Dr. Hashmiu is a recipient of several prestigious international grants and fellowships including the Association of African Universities (AAU) Small Grants for Theses and Dissertations Award (2017), DFID/Future Agricultures Consortium's Early Career Post-Masters Fellowship (2011), DFID Commonwealth Shared Scholarship (2008), and the International Tropical Timber Organisation (ITTO) Fellowship (2007&2014). Prior to joining KNUST as a Lecturer, Dr. Hashmiu worked on a variety of climate change and environmental sustainability projects in Ghana and abroad, including the World Bank's Climate Change Flagship Project: Ghana Dedicated Grant Mechanism for Local Communities (with Solidaridad West Africa); ESRC-funded Political Ecologies of Carbon in Africa Project at the STEPS Centre, University of Sussex, UK; and EarthCorps Environmental Restoration and Community Outreach Volunteer Programme in Seattle, USA. He started his professional life at the Ghana Association for the Conservation of Nature (GACON), a local NGO in Kumasi, Ghana, where he facilitated IUCN and UNDP/GEF-funded projects on community-based sacred grove conservation and ecotourism.