Dr. Amos Mensah

Senior Lecturer


Dept: Agricultural Economics, Agribusiness and Extension
NCB-Ground Floor, Room 1
amensah@knust.edu.gh
mensahamos@yahoo.co.uk

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Research Areas/Interests

SPECIALIZATION: RESEARCH & TEACHING Agriculture and Natural Resource Management (Efficiency and Productivity Measurement) Agribusiness an...~more

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Research Projects (Current and Past)

Name of Project: GIZ Multi-Country Baseline Study (Innovation Centers for Agricultural and Food Sector – Ghana Green Innovation Center)

  • Year: 2015 – 2016
  • Location: Ghana
  • Employer: GIZ/GFA
  • Position Held: Country Expert/Consultant
  • Main Features of the Project: The main aim of the project is to harness and enhance innovations in the agriculture and food sector to increase the incomes of small-scale farming enterprises, boost employment and improved the regional food supply in the rural target regions.
  • Activities:
  • Reconnaissance country survey (key sector stokehold selection)
  • Training and supervision of enumerators (using CAPI)
  • Steering field data collection activities (quantitative &qualitative data collection)
  • Data entry and processing
  • Data analysis
  • Writing of progress report to national and international partners/donors (GIZ, GFA)
  • Writing and presentation of the country report to GIZ and MoFA-Ghana

Name of Project: Evaluation Study for the Sorghum Sub-Sector in Ghana

  • Year: 2016
  • Location: Ghana
  • Employer: Concern Universal
  • Activities:
  • Data Analyst
  • Assessing the Economic Impact of the Project
  • Identification of Project Overlays

Name of Project:  Needs Assessment for Poultry Associations in Ghana

  • Year: 2017
  • Location: Ghana (Brong-Ahafo, Gt. Accra and Ashanti Regions)
  • Employer: Ghana Poultry Project (GPP)/ ACDI/VOCA
  • Main project features: Assessing resource endowment of associations, capacities of leadership, knowledge level, Capacity needs of all poultry associations in Ghana, etc.

Positions held:  Leader Consultant.

  • Activities performed:
  • Research design
  • Reconnaissance survey
  • Questionnaire design, Training of enumerators, Data collection, Data cleaning, Data analysis, Report writing and overall coordination of the study.

Name of Project: FARA Multi-Donor Trust Fund (FARA-MDTF)

  • Year: 2018
  • Location: Ghana
  • Employer: FARA
  • Position Held: Consultant

Main Features of the Project: Consultancy service that fully explores the key competencies required to promote the deployment of tools, information and knowledge that will revolutionize the selected value chains to make them more profitable and competitive for actors involved at any end of the value chain

  • Activities performed:
  • Research design
  • Reconnaissance survey
  • Questionnaire design, Training of enumerators, Data collection, Data cleaning, Data analysis, Report writing and overall coordination of the project.


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