Mr. Mark Appiah-Twumasi - Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Consumer Sciences

MR. MARK APPIAH-TWUMASI Lecturer DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURAL AND FOOD ECONOMICS FACULTY OF AGRICULTURE, FOOD AND CONSUMER SCIENCES NYANKPALA Campus

Background

Mark Appiah-Twumasi is a Lecturer at the Department of Agricultural and Food Economics. His teaching and research focus on applied econometric analyses of agri-food systems, with applications in the field of markets and prices, technology adoption, and risk and uncertainty. He has rich local and international experience in teaching, research, and consultancy having worked/collaborated with Agrostudies in the State of Israel, KNUST – Ghana, and international organizations like USAID, JIRCAS, and IFDC. He published his work in high impact interdisciplinary journals like Agricultural Finance Review, PLoS ONE, and Technology in Society.

Email Address: mtwumasi@uds.edu.gh

Zakaria, A., Azumah, S. B., Appiah-Twumasi, M., & Dagunga, G. (2020). Adoption of climate-smart agricultural practices among farm households in Ghana: The role of farmer participation in training programmes. Technology in Society, 63, 101338.
Damba, O. T., Ansah, I. G. K., Donkoh, S. A., Alhassan, A., Mullins, G. R., Yussif, K., ... & Appiah-Twumasi, M. (2020). Effects of technology dissemination approaches on agricultural technology uptake and utilization in Northern Ghana. Technology in Society, 62, 101294.
Tetteh, B. K., Ansah, I. G., Donkoh, S. A., Appiah-Twumasi, M., Avornyo, F. K., Shaibu, M. T., ... & Akufo, N. M. (2020). Perceptions of weather variability and climate change on goat producers’ choice of coping and adaptation strategies: evidence from climate-smart and non-climate-smart villages in the Jirapa and Lawra districts. Climate and Development, 12(7), 614-625.
Appiah-Twumasi, M., Donkoh, S. A., & Ansah, I. G. K. (2020). Farmer innovations in financing smallholder maize production in Northern Ghana. Agricultural Finance Review, 80(3), 421-436.
Zakaria, A., Azumah, S. B., Dagunga, G., & Appiah-Twumasi, M. (2021). Profitability analysis of rice production: a microeconomic perspective from northern Ghana. Agricultural Finance Review, 81(4), 535-553.
Amfo, B., Aidoo, R., Osei Mensah, J., Adzawla, W., Appiah-Twumasi, M., Akey, E. A., & Bannor, R. K. (2023). Rice marketing outlets, commercialization, and welfare: insights from rural Ghana. Journal of International Food & Agribusiness Marketing, 35(4), 459-486.
Appiah-Twumasi, M., & Asale, M. A. (2022). Crop diversification and farm household food and nutrition security in Northern Ghana. Environment, Development and Sustainability, 1-29.
Appiah-Twumasi, M., Donkoh, S. A., & Ansah, I. G. K. (2022). Innovations in smallholder agricultural financing and economic efficiency of maize production in Ghana’s northern region. Heliyon, 8(12).
Ansah, I. G. K., Appiah-Twumasi, M., & Tsiboe, F. (2023). Starchy staples production shortfalls in Ghana: Technical inefficiency effects outweigh technological differences across ecologies. Plos one, 18(4), e0284780.