Positions Held & Hold
- 2013-Date: Senior Research Fellow and Lecturer, Agroforestry Department, Faculty of Renewable Natural Resources, KNUST, Kumasi
- 2009-2013: Research Fellow and Lecturer, Agroforestry Department, Faculty of Renewable Natural Resources, KNUST, Kumasi.
Teaching Duties: Teaching, conducting research and supervision of students at BSc., MPhil and PhD levels. Academic mentoring, counselling and provision of guidance to students
Courses Taught:
Semester 1
AGE 357 Plantation tree crops in Agroforestry Systems (BSc III)
AGF 455 Current Issues in Land-use Management (BSc IV)
AF 603 Land-use Analysis and Classification (MPhil/PhD)
AF 601 Agroforestry Concepts, Systems, Technologies and Practices (MPhil/PhD))
Semester 2
AGF 355 Agroforestry (BSc III)
AGF 358 Agroforestry Research Methods (BSc III)
AGF 456 Current Research in Agroforestry (BSc IV)
AF 604 Agroforestry Research Methods (MPhil/PhD)
- May 2003 to July 2009: Research Fellow, Technology Consultancy Centre, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana.
Duties:
- Research and Development
- Farmer training, Capacity building and Extension Planning
- Dissemination of sustainable farming and livelihood technologies
- Participatory Technology Development
- May 2000 to May 2003 - Projects Coordinator: Ricerca e Cooperazione, (Italian International NGO), Coordinated the implementation of two (2) EU-Sponsored Agroforestry and Sustainable Livelihoods Projects namely:
- Forest Resources Creation Project (FRCP) and
- Agroforestry, Environmental Care, and Poverty Reduction Project.
Duties:
- Extension Planning and management
- Project Coordination including Research, Capacity Building and Human Resources Management, Environmental Protection,
- Monitoring and evaluation of past & ongoing projects
- Information (including the compilation, editing and production of bi-annual newsletter ‘RC Agroforestry News’ and Networking with relevant North and South Institutions.
- Project proposal formulation, baseline surveys and Project Cycle management
- September 1990 to May 2000) -Research Fellow:
Agroforestry Development and Sustainable Livelihoods Promotion Programme, Technology Consultancy Centre, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana
- Research and Technology transfer /rural extension Activities Coordinated
- Coordinator –MiDA Commercial Development of Farmer Based Organisation Training Programme (August 2008-June 2011)
- Coordinator-Ghana Jatropha/University of Sassari Jatropha Project February 2008-August 2010
- Coordinated and participated in Sixth International Federation of Women Entrepreneurs (IFWE) and world Association of Small and Medium Enterprises (WASME) Exhibition in September 1997