PROF. ISSAHAKU GAZALIAssociate ProfessorDEPARTMENT OF FOOD SECURITY AND CLIMATE CHANGEFACULTY OF AGRICULTURE, FOOD AND CONSUMER SCIENCESNYANKPALA Campus
Background
Gazali Issahaku (PhD) is a Senior Lecturer and Examination Officer in the Department of Food Security and Climate Change. He has taught courses in Curriculum studies in Agricultural Education, Climate Change Economics, Environmental and Sustainable Agriculture, Food and Nutrition Security and Engineering Economics and Entrepreneurship. He has conducted research on wide range of issues on climate-smart agricultural technologies, food security and sustainable agriculture. His research focuses on agricultural technology adoption and impacts on welfare and other policy outcomes, including food and nutrition security, and environmental efficiency. He has worked in different projects, which sought to enhance agricultural technology adoption, market access among farmers, water and energy security, as well as the provision of ecosystem service. He was part of the research team that successfully implemented WACDEP and RESULTS projects in vulnerable communities, particularly in the Upper East and Upper West regions. He was also the co-investigator in the Ecosystem services project (Evaluating Ecosystem Services in the Volta Basin to Enhance Resilience) by IWMI. He is also the agricultural economist in the “Sustainable intensification of food production through resilient farming systems in West & North Africa (SustInAfrica)” project. He is also member of the Volatility Research team at the Center for the Development Research (ZEF), Bonn.
Awoyemi, A. E., Issahaku, G., & Awuni, J. A. (2023). Drivers of household food security: Evidence from the Ghana living standards survey. Journal of Agriculture and Food Research, 13, 100636.
Issahaku, G., Kornher, L., Saiful Islam, A. H. M., & Abdul-Rahaman, A. (2023). Heterogeneous impacts of home-gardening on household food and nutrition security in Rwanda. Food security, 1-20.
Ma, W., Abdul‐Rahaman, A., & Issahaku, G. (2023). Welfare implications of participating in agri‐value chains among vegetable farmers in Northern Ghana. Agribusiness, 39(3), 793-811.
Shahzad MF, Abdulai A, Issahaku G (2021). Adaptation Implications of Climate-Smart Agriculture in Rural Pakistan. Sustainability; 13(21):11702. https://doi.org/10.3390/su132111702
Abdallah, AH., Abdul-Rahaman, A. & Issahaku, G. (2021). Sustainable agricultural practices, farm income and food security among rural households in Africa. Environment, Development and Sustainability, p.1-34. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10668-021-01407-y
Abdulai, A.N., Abdul Rahaman, A. and Issahaku, G. (2021). Adoption and diffusion of conservation agriculture technology in Zambia: the role of social and institutional networks, Environmental Economics and Policy Studies, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10018-020-00298-z
Abdallah, A.H., Abdul-Rahaman, A. and Issahaku, G. (2020). Production and hidden hunger impacts of sustainable agricultural practices: evidence from rural households in Africa, Agrekon 59 (4): 440-458, https://doi.org/10.1080/03031853.2020.1855219
Abdul-Rahaman, A., Issahaku, G. and. Zereyesus, Y. A. (2021). Improved rice variety adoption and farm production efficiency: Accounting for unobservable selection bias and technology gaps among smallholder farmers in Ghana, Technology in Society 64, 101471.
Issahaku, G., Abdul-Rahaman, A. and Amikuzuno, J. (2021). Climate change adaptation strategies, farm performance and poverty reduction among smallholder farming households in Ghana, Climate and Development,1-12. https://doi.org/10.1080/17565529.2020.1860884
Issahaku, G. and Abdulai, A. (2020).Household welfare implications of sustainable land management practices among smallholder farmers in Ghana, Land Use Policy, 94: 104502, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2020.104502.
Andani, A. Moro, A. B. and Issahaku, G. (2020). Fertilizer subsidy policy and smallholder farmers' crop productivity: The case of maize production in North-Eastern Ghana, Journal of Agricultural Extension and Rural Development, 12 (2): 18-25.
Who We Are
The Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Consumer Sciences (FOAFCS), located at the Nyankpala Campus, is the premier faculty of the University for Development Studies (UDS), having begun in 1993 as the Faculty of Agriculture.
