Kamaldeen Yussif (PhD) is a Lecturer in the Department of Agricultural Innovation Communication. Dr. Kamaldeen Yussif has over ten years of professional working experience in conducting interdisciplinary research and academic work. He has won scholarships/grants, including those from the Japan Foundation for the United Nations University (JFUNU), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) and the USAID West Africa Water, Sanitation and Health (WA-WASH). His primary research areas are resource governance and sustainability outcomes of resource (mis)use and scarcity, especially for vulnerable populations (such as indigenous people, women, and people with disability), Agrarian/peri-urban transformation and sustainability; climate change; human security (including environmental, food, economic, & conflict transformation); policy/project impact analysis. He has executed numerous research and consultancy services in collaboration with USAID, GoG, IFDC, etc., with local and international partners. Dr. Yussif teaches courses in Agriculture and Environment, Conflict Transformation and Peace Building, Community-Based Organisations (CBOs)/Farmer-Based Organisations (FBO) Development and Management, Extension Administration and Supervision, Population and Family Life Education, Participatory Processes, as well as Introduction to Rural Sociology. He currently serves as the Secretary of the University Teachers Association (UTAG) UDS Nyankpala Campus Branch.

Email address: ykamaldeen@uds.edu.gh