Frank Kwaku Agyei
The researcher's work focuses on advancing understanding of food security, sustainable practices, and governance within Ghana. Their studies examine themes such as protecting and developing forests for food production, managing rural agroecosystems, addressing energy challenges, and exploring agricultural policies linked to carbon emissions. The research highlights key issues in resource management, particularly in protected areas and traditional lands, while also emphasizing the role of politics and social responsibility in shaping economic and environmental priorities.
Faculty Biography
Dr. Frank Kwaku Agyei is a scholar of environmental justice and rural wellbeing. He studies the social and political-economic causes of the precarity and suffering of natural-resource-dependent communities. He conducts his research in four inter-linked arenas: natural resource tenure and access; distribution along natural resource commodity chains; decentralization and democratic local government; and household vulnerability in the face of climate change. Dr. Agyei uses a political-economy approach drawing on disciplines of sociology, anthropology, political science, political philosophy and geography. He transmits the findings of his research through books, articles, a children’s book, film, policy briefs, sculptures, teaching and lectures. He has been privileged not only to review multiple development issues in developing countries but to have hands-on experience in designing, implementing and reviewing various development and poverty reduction approaches, impact investment and eco-entrepreneurship for over 12 years.
Agriculture and Rural Development Research
Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development
Climate change impacts on agriculture
Cocoa and Sweet Potato Agronomy
Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
Energy and Environment Impacts
Natural Resources and Economic Development
Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare
Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology
Urban Green Space and Health
Financial autonomy and income for emergencies drive women at the Sekyere Afram Plains District of Ghana to produce charcoal
Open AccessContextualising sustainable transhumant pastoralism: A systematic review
Cattle violence: the politics and fantasies of cattle ranching in Ghana
How farmer-herder conflicts reconfigure the authority of politico-legal institutions in Ghana
Conflict actors influence the dynamics of agropastoral policies to accommodate their preferences and expectations in Ghana
Governance and Conservation Effectiveness in Protected Areas and Indigenous and Locally Managed Areas
Open AccessCharcoal politics in Africa: Value chains, resource complexes, and energopolitics
Open AccessFrom crisis to context: Reviewing the future of sustainable charcoal in Africa
Customary authorities and decentralized natural resource management: A review
Drivers of cocoa encroachment into protected forests: the case of three forest reserves in Ghana
“Forestry officials don't have any land or rights here”: Authority of politico-legal institutions along Ghana's charcoal commodity chain
Access along Ghana’s charcoal commodity chain
PROFITS, ACCESS AND AUTHORITY ALONG GHANA’S CHARCOAL COMMODITY CHAIN
Open AccessProfit and profit distribution along Ghana's charcoal commodity chain
Decentralized forest governance and community representation outcomes: analysis of the modified taungya system in Ghana
The policy and practice of the Social Responsibility Agreement in Ghana
Representation without accountability in forestry: experiences from the Social Responsibility Agreement in Ghana
Sustainability of Climate Change Adaptation Strategies: Experiences from Eastern Ghana
Open AccessChiefs, representation and non-citizenship in forestry
Biodiversity, environmental health and human well-being: analysis of linkages and pathways
Department of Silviculture and Forest Management
Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology