MR. ISSAKA BALMA YAKUBUSenior LecturerDEPARTMENT OF AGRIBUSINESSFACULTY OF AGRICULTURE, FOOD AND CONSUMER SCIENCESNYANKPALA Campus
Background
Yakubu Balma Issaka is a Senior Lecturer and Deputy Director of the Business Directorate of the University for Development Studies, Tamale, Ghana. He has previously served as the Head of the Department of Agribusiness, Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Consumer Sciences of the University for Development Studies. He has over 15 years of experience teaching, including statistics, macroeconomics, microeconomics, value chain development, agricultural finance and strategic business planning, at the undergraduate level, and conflict management at the post-graduate level. He has led the design and certification of the Diploma, MSc, MPhil and PhD programmes of the Department of Agribusiness and contributed to the concept, design and establishment of the Business Innovation and Incubation Centre and the Business Directorate of the University.
His current research interests include value chain development, smallholder agricultural markets, smallholder farmer adaptation and resilience to climate change and entrepreneurship. Mr Issaka has collaborated extensively with NGOs, Private and Public Sector Organisations (including the United Nations UNDP, UNU, FAO, WorldVeg, SNV, the CIFOR, Ministry of Food and Agriculture, USAID) in the areas of capacity building and coaching of Meso-Level NGOs, design and implementation of agricultural, rural development, market access and natural resource management programmes; monitoring and evaluation of rural and development interventions, value chain facilitation and; community-based conflict transformation and peacebuilding. He has working experience in Ghana, Congo DRC, Burkina Faso, Niger, Cameroun, Senegal and Mali.
Email address: yakubu_ssaka@uds.edu.gh
Issaka, Y. B., Donkor, S. A., & Kranjac-Berisavljevic, G. (2023). Factors influencing resilience to climate variability among smallholder lowland rice farming households in northern Ghana. Journal of Drylands Ecosystems. UDS Journal of International Development, 10 (1), special issue/agricultural sciences.
Issaka, Y. B., Nyarko, G., and Quaidoo, D. (2021). Factors influencing technology adoption by traditional African vegetable farmers in northern Ghana. UDS International Journal of Development, 8 (1), 2026-5336
Amfo, B., Abdul-Rahaman, A and Issaka, Y.B. (2021). Rice planting technologies and farm performance under different production systems in Ghana. International Journal of Productivity and Performance Management.1741-0401 DOI. 10.1108/IJPPM-03-2021-0166
Issaka, Y.B. (2018). Non-timber Forest Products, Climate Change Resilience, and Poverty Alleviation in Northern Ghana. Book chapter in Strategies for Building Resilience against Climate and Ecosystem Changes in Sub-Saharan Africa. Osamu Saito, Gordana Kranjac-Berisavljevic Kazuhiko Takeuchi, Edwin A. Gyasi (Eds). Springer Nature, 2018.
Azupogo, F., Seidu, J.A and Issaka, Y.B. (2018). Higher vegetable intake and vegetable variety is associated with a better self-reported health-related quality of life (HRQoL) in a cross-sectional survey of rural northern Ghanaian women in fertile age. BMC Public Health (2018) 18:920. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-018-5845-3.
Gandaa, B.Z, Kranjac-Berisavljevic, G., Issaka, Y.B., and Abubakari, S. (2018). Ecosystem Management on Large-scale Irrigation Landscapes in Northern Ghana. International Journal of Irrigation and Agricultural Development. Vol. 1 No.1, December 2017
Kamga, R.T., Some, S., Tenkouano, A., Issaka, Y.B., and Ndoye, O. (2016). Assessment of traditional African vegetable production in Burkina Faso. Journal of Agricultural Extension and Rural Development. Vol.8(8), pp. 141-150, August 2016 DOI: 10.5897/JAERD2016.0788
Issaka, Y.B, Tenkouano, A. and Kamga R.T. (2016). Improving Resilience of Agricultural Systems through Innovation Platforms: creating space for farmer participation in research. Ghana Journal of Science, Technology and Development. Vol. 4, Issue 2. December 2016
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.
