Prof. Alexander Yao Segbefia

Associate Professor


Dept: Geography and Rural Development
Room SF22H Second Floor, New Social Science Building, KNUST

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Research Areas/Interests


Publications

    1. Details of Research or Projects undertaken since last Appointed to the University or Promoted:

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    Date

    3a. Topics of Research Conducted

    3b. Publications Arising out of the Research

    3c. Journal in which papers are published

    1

    2003 to 2007

    The New Faces of Poverty in Ghana. (2003 – 2007). Project

    Funded by NUFU, Norway.

    (NUFU Project No. 56/2003)

     

    Segbefia, A. Y. (2004) The Potentials of Pro-Poor Tourism for Poverty Reduction in Peripheral Areas in Ghana. Workshop Proceedings, pp. 90-98

    Poverty, Health and Gender. Proceedings of the “NUFU” Workshop, 6th – 8th January, 2004. University of Ghana, Legon.

     

    2

    2006 to 2008

    Enhancing Capacity Building in Poverty and Pro-Poor Tourism Strategy Research for Rural Development. (Funded by the World Bank Teaching and Learning Innovation Fund TALIF (KNUST/4/002/2006)

    Segbefia, A. Y. (2008) Community Approach to Tourism Development in Ghana.

    Book Chapter, Pages 54 – 68.

     

    Tourism in Ghana: A Modern Synthesis. Assemblies of God Literature Centre Ltd, Accra, Ghana.

    3

    2006 to 2011

    Women’s access to credit and its effects on their livelihoods (A longitudinal study)

     

     

    Ganle, J.K., Afriyie, K. and Segbefia, A. Y. (2014) Microcredit: Empowerment and Disempowerment of Rural Women in Ghana

     

    World Development. Vol. 66. February 2015. Pg 335–345.

    4

    2012 to 2014

    Traditional medicine use in urban and rural areas of the Ashanti region

    Razak Mohammed Gyasi, Felix Asante, Alexander Yao Segbefia, and others (2015) Does spatial location matter? Traditional therapy utilization among the general population in a Ghanaian rural and urban setting.

    Complementary Therapies In Medicine. Volume 23, Issue 3 (2015), Pages 439-450.

    5

    2014 to 2015

    The effects of family members on choice of maternal services of pregnant women in Ghana

     

    Ganle, J. K., Segbefia, A. Y., and others (2015) How intra-familial decision-making affects women’s access to, and use of maternal healthcare services in Ghana: a qualitative study

     

     BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth (2015) 15:173

    DOI 10.1186/s12884-015-0590-4

    6

    2014 to 2015

    Methodological Choices in Tourism Research in Ghana.

     

    Eshun, G., Zakaria, S. and Segbefia, A. Y., (2015) Beyond Entrenched positions: Towards a more Comprehensive Understanding of Methodological Choices in Tourism Research in Ghana.

    Journal of Critical Southern Studies. Vol. 3, Winter, 2015.

    7

    2015 to  2016

    Methodological Choices in Tourism Research in Ghana.

     

    Gabriel Eshun, Esmeranda Manful and Alexander Yao Segbefia (2016) A Methodology for Tourism Research in Africa: A Postcolonial Contribution

     

    Journal Academica. Vol.

    8

    2016

    Tourist Experiences at Ecotourism Sites in Ghana.

    Gabriel Eshun, Prince Osei-Wusu Adjei and Alexander Yao Segbefia (2016) ‘Beyond Business as Usual’: Implications of Tourist Experiences for Ecotourism Development

     

    African Journal of Hospitality, Tourism and Leisure Volume 5 (2) – (2016) Online @ http//: www.ajhtl.com

    9

    2016

    Poverty traps in Northern Ghana

    Alphonsus Beni, Lawrence Guodaar, Alex Yao Segbefia,

    Prince Osei-Wusu Adjei and John Kuumuori Ganle.  Geography and Poverty Traps in Northern Ghana: A Theoretical Analysis of the Literature

    Spiritan Journal of Poverty Studies, ISSN 2467-8996, Volume 1 Number 1 April 2016 Pages 38-51

    10

    2015

    Microfinance for poverty reduction among rural women in Africa: Investigating Contextual Determinants of Success and Failure in Ghana and Kenya. (Funded by the Association of African Universities’ Policy Relevant Research Programme)

     

    Project is on-going

     

    11

    2015 to 2019

    Seaweed Bio refinery in Ghana (SEABIOGHA) Project. Funded by DANIDA

    (Project No. 14-01DTU)

    Project is on-going

     


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