Eric Mensah Kumeh
Biographic Data
| ID | 1400108 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Eric Mensah Kumeh |
| GIVEN NAMES | Eric Mensah |
| FAMILY NAME | Kumeh |
| SIGNATURE | KUMEH E M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Hohenheim |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6515-069X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 32 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 15 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Navigating Pop Ups
Many qualitative research designs assume bounded encounters characterized by a defined set of participants, a planned setting, or a predictable unit of analysis. Yet across diverse fieldwork settings, particularly in rural landscapes of the Global South, interview- and focus-group-based research encounters can be highly porous. Individuals or groups who were not originally recruited routinely enter or depart interviews, focus groups, or community…
Just nature recovery
A rising interest in nature recovery has expanded the focus of conservation beyond protected areas to encompass a range of terrestrial and marine areas, from forests, fields, and farms, to cities, coasts and oceans. These expansions create new practical and theoretical contestations regarding how, why, and for whom nature recovery projects should be pursued. Such contestations are particularly pronounced in Scotland, a country with a long history…
Ghana’s landscape approach to Redd
Understanding actors' power through conflict dynamics
Environmentality and the making of compliant subjects
Equity in unilateral value chain policies
Is the EU shirking responsibility for its deforestation footprint in tropical countries? Power, material, and epistemic inequalities in the EU’s global environmental governance
This paper critically examines the European Union's (EU) role in tropical deforestation and the bloc's actions to mitigate it. We focus on two EU policy communications aimed at the challenge: stepping up EU action to protect and restore the world's forests and the EU updated bioeconomy strategy. In addition, we refer to the European Green Deal, which articulates the bloc's overarching vision for sustainability and transformations. We find that by…
Contestations, counteractions and equitable conservation – a case study of Ghana's Krokosua Hills Forest Reserve
This paper delves into the intricate dynamics of forest conservation conflict in rural Ghana, where state-led conservation efforts through forest reserves have met fierce counteractions from local communities within and around the Krokosua Hills Forest Reserve. The study adopts a critical postcolonial institutional framework to examine the historical struggles that have shaped conservation policies in the country and subsequent contestations by f…
Retooling incentive mechanisms for effective smallholder tree growers' contributions to global landscape restoration
Amid the global tree-planting rush to restore degraded landscapes, this study examined how service providers organise incentives for smallholder forest plantations in rural Ghana. Current incentives push farmers to plant trees without adequate mechanisms for ensuring they benefit over time. This enables timber merchants to exploit many tree growers, discouraging most farmers from participating in restoration activities. While some tree growers in…
Analysis of charcoal production with recent developments in Sub-Sahara Africa
The paper reviews the state of charcoal production in Sub-Saharan Africa, where 65% of the world’s charcoal is produced. Charcoal production is dominated by smallholders who use wood from unsustainable sources and inefficient carbonization techniques, leading to ecosystem degradation. Meanwhile, the demand for charcoal is rising in the region, leading to attempts by governments to formalize the sector; including enabling investments from large-sc…
Food-security corridors
Forest conversion for farming remains an issue of scientific and societal concern due to its growing impacts on biodiversity and climate change. Therefore, scientists and policymakers emphasise the urgent need to find a balance between forest conservation and agriculture. Meanwhile, across tropical Africa, subsistence farmers account for nearly two-thirds of forest conversion to farms annually. These farmers’ perceptions and experiences about for…
Community forest monitoring and the social reproduction of inequalities in Ghana
Customary power, farmer strategies and the dynamics of access to protected forestlands for farming
In the last decade, multiple scientists and policymakers have been promoting bioeconomy for decarbonisation and as a way to tackle the ongoing socio-ecological crises. An effective transition to the bioeconomy in developing countries, which are predominantly agrarian,depends partly on its amenability to existing land access regimes and how actors in such countries are able to manage competing claims and needs associated with land use for biomass …
Farmer-to-farmer digital network as a strategy to strengthen agricultural performance in Kenya
Youth’s access to agricultural land in Sub-Saharan Africa
Youth’s access to agricultural land in Sub-Saharan Africa
Equity in unilateral value chain policies
Just nature recovery
A rising interest in nature recovery has expanded the focus of conservation beyond protected areas to encompass a range of terrestrial and marine areas, from forests, fields, and farms, to cities, coasts and oceans. These expansions create new practical and theoretical contestations regarding how, why, and for whom nature recovery projects should be pursued. Such contestations are particularly pronounced in Scotland, a country with a long history…
Is the EU shirking responsibility for its deforestation footprint in tropical countries? Power, material, and epistemic inequalities in the EU’s global environmental governance
This paper critically examines the European Union's (EU) role in tropical deforestation and the bloc's actions to mitigate it. We focus on two EU policy communications aimed at the challenge: stepping up EU action to protect and restore the world's forests and the EU updated bioeconomy strategy. In addition, we refer to the European Green Deal, which articulates the bloc's overarching vision for sustainability and transformations. We find that by…
Food-security corridors
Forest conversion for farming remains an issue of scientific and societal concern due to its growing impacts on biodiversity and climate change. Therefore, scientists and policymakers emphasise the urgent need to find a balance between forest conservation and agriculture. Meanwhile, across tropical Africa, subsistence farmers account for nearly two-thirds of forest conversion to farms annually. These farmers’ perceptions and experiences about for…
Understanding actors' power through conflict dynamics
Community forest monitoring and the social reproduction of inequalities in Ghana
Customary power, farmer strategies and the dynamics of access to protected forestlands for farming
In the last decade, multiple scientists and policymakers have been promoting bioeconomy for decarbonisation and as a way to tackle the ongoing socio-ecological crises. An effective transition to the bioeconomy in developing countries, which are predominantly agrarian,depends partly on its amenability to existing land access regimes and how actors in such countries are able to manage competing claims and needs associated with land use for biomass …
Contestations, counteractions and equitable conservation – a case study of Ghana's Krokosua Hills Forest Reserve
This paper delves into the intricate dynamics of forest conservation conflict in rural Ghana, where state-led conservation efforts through forest reserves have met fierce counteractions from local communities within and around the Krokosua Hills Forest Reserve. The study adopts a critical postcolonial institutional framework to examine the historical struggles that have shaped conservation policies in the country and subsequent contestations by f…
Youth’s access to agricultural land in Sub-Saharan Africa
Farmer-to-farmer digital network as a strategy to strengthen agricultural performance in Kenya
Customary power, farmer strategies and the dynamics of access to protected forestlands for farming
In the last decade, multiple scientists and policymakers have been promoting bioeconomy for decarbonisation and as a way to tackle the ongoing socio-ecological crises. An effective transition to the bioeconomy in developing countries, which are predominantly agrarian,depends partly on its amenability to existing land access regimes and how actors in such countries are able to manage competing claims and needs associated with land use for biomass …
Analysis of charcoal production with recent developments in Sub-Sahara Africa
The paper reviews the state of charcoal production in Sub-Saharan Africa, where 65% of the world’s charcoal is produced. Charcoal production is dominated by smallholders who use wood from unsustainable sources and inefficient carbonization techniques, leading to ecosystem degradation. Meanwhile, the demand for charcoal is rising in the region, leading to attempts by governments to formalize the sector; including enabling investments from large-sc…
Food-security corridors
Forest conversion for farming remains an issue of scientific and societal concern due to its growing impacts on biodiversity and climate change. Therefore, scientists and policymakers emphasise the urgent need to find a balance between forest conservation and agriculture. Meanwhile, across tropical Africa, subsistence farmers account for nearly two-thirds of forest conversion to farms annually. These farmers’ perceptions and experiences about for…
Community forest monitoring and the social reproduction of inequalities in Ghana
Is the EU shirking responsibility for its deforestation footprint in tropical countries? Power, material, and epistemic inequalities in the EU’s global environmental governance
This paper critically examines the European Union's (EU) role in tropical deforestation and the bloc's actions to mitigate it. We focus on two EU policy communications aimed at the challenge: stepping up EU action to protect and restore the world's forests and the EU updated bioeconomy strategy. In addition, we refer to the European Green Deal, which articulates the bloc's overarching vision for sustainability and transformations. We find that by…
Contestations, counteractions and equitable conservation – a case study of Ghana's Krokosua Hills Forest Reserve
This paper delves into the intricate dynamics of forest conservation conflict in rural Ghana, where state-led conservation efforts through forest reserves have met fierce counteractions from local communities within and around the Krokosua Hills Forest Reserve. The study adopts a critical postcolonial institutional framework to examine the historical struggles that have shaped conservation policies in the country and subsequent contestations by f…
Retooling incentive mechanisms for effective smallholder tree growers' contributions to global landscape restoration
Amid the global tree-planting rush to restore degraded landscapes, this study examined how service providers organise incentives for smallholder forest plantations in rural Ghana. Current incentives push farmers to plant trees without adequate mechanisms for ensuring they benefit over time. This enables timber merchants to exploit many tree growers, discouraging most farmers from participating in restoration activities. While some tree growers in…
Just nature recovery
A rising interest in nature recovery has expanded the focus of conservation beyond protected areas to encompass a range of terrestrial and marine areas, from forests, fields, and farms, to cities, coasts and oceans. These expansions create new practical and theoretical contestations regarding how, why, and for whom nature recovery projects should be pursued. Such contestations are particularly pronounced in Scotland, a country with a long history…
Ghana’s landscape approach to Redd
Understanding actors' power through conflict dynamics
Environmentality and the making of compliant subjects
Equity in unilateral value chain policies
Navigating Pop Ups
Many qualitative research designs assume bounded encounters characterized by a defined set of participants, a planned setting, or a predictable unit of analysis. Yet across diverse fieldwork settings, particularly in rural landscapes of the Global South, interview- and focus-group-based research encounters can be highly porous. Individuals or groups who were not originally recruited routinely enter or depart interviews, focus groups, or community…
Economics (12 works) · Business (9 works) · Geography (9 works) · Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (8 works) · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development (7 works) · Political science (6 works) · Agriculture (5 works) · Environmental resource management (5 works) · Agroforestry (4 works) · Energy and Environment Impacts (4 works)