Thomas Yeboah
Biographic Data
| ID | 3708729 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Thomas Yeboah |
| GIVEN NAMES | Thomas |
| FAMILY NAME | Yeboah |
| SIGNATURE | YEBOAH T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9198-8987 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 36 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
When global agendas meet local politics
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) increasingly shape agricultural policy discourses across the Global South, yet their practical relevance and limitations in West Africa remain underexplored. This study interrogates the role of the SDGs in shaping agricultural policy priorities in West Africa and critically examines their limitations. Drawing on a systematic review of twenty –four peer-reviewed articles, policy reports, and institutional d…
The Voices of Working Children on the Trade-Offs from Working in Fisheries on the Volta Lake, Ghana
Transcalar advocacy collaborations among youth-led civil society organisations in Africa
While collaborations between civil society organisations (CSOs) in the Global North and South have been explored, the focus has largely been on the power dynamics and added value in collaborations. Although youth-led CSOs (YLCSOs) in the Global South engage in collaborations with stakeholders, the nature of such collaborations remains under-researched. Drawing on the concepts of transcalar advocacy, collaboration and NGOisation and data from qual…
Power and its discontents
NGOs are taking incremental steps to reconfigure power dynamics and foster more equal relationships between Northern and Southern actors. • Most actions to address North-South power imbalances do not fundamentally change power dynamics or tackle the root causes of inequality. • Most actions are Northern-led, running the risk of reinforcing power relations in the aid system. • NGO are making slow progress in shifting power and individual actions c…
Groundnut processing and women's economic empowerment
There is a growing recognition of the vital role that women play as the backbone of agricultural and small-scale processing activities. Women's empowerment has become central to international development, which emphasizes gender equality as both a human right and a driver of economic growth and sustainable development. This study focuses on Northern Ghana, a region with significant reliance on groundnut processing as a livelihood activity. Northe…
Understanding ecological grief as a response to climate change-induced loss in Ghana
The perceived effects of climate change on the environment are becoming a lived experience for many rural dwellers in poor countries. Several new concepts have emerged to describe the long-term mental health consequences of climate-induced effects, with ecological grief as a prime example. Yet empirical research showing how climate-related ecological loss drives grief and emotional distress among communities is limited, particularly within the co…
State-mandated decentralized irrigation reforms
The prospects and challenges of decentralized irrigation governance reforms are widely discussed. Less discussed, however, is the institutional design of these reforms and how and why it matters to our diagnosis of their successes or otherwise. We used and tested the state-reinforced self-governance (SRSG) framework to examine the institutional design of Ghana’s decentralized irrigation reform and whether self-governance capacities were granted t…
Northern NGO-centrism in localisation processes
This paper examines the process of discussing and designing actions to tackle power inequities by Northern and Southern NGOs. Drawing on 53 interviews with Northern and Southern NGOs, and NNGO networks, we argue that current localisation processes produce a form of cultural capital leveraged by competing Northern NGOs rooted in signalling solidarity with SNGOs and/or communities to donors through rhetorical and symbolic practices, reinforcing the…
An Overview of the Obstacles to Gender Equality Processes in Rural and Urban Ghana
The differential impact of development efforts on women and men has critically brought out the need to take a gender-transformative approach to development processes. Despite the tremendous efforts made, there persist some seemingly impossible obstacles to gender equality. The main objective of this study was to analyze the main obstacles to gender equality in Ghana in rural and urban contexts to inform policy decisions. The study employed a mixe…
Understanding non-economic loss and damage due to climate change in Ghana
The concept of non-economic loss and damage (NELD) of climate change has emerged strongly in the international policy arena in the past few years. Nonetheless, while research on climate-induced loss has focused on the economic dimension, the non-economic aspects have often been side-lined in academic research and policy debate. This paper draws on in-depth interviews and a focus group with farmers to develop a comprehensive understanding of clima…
Side‐hustling’ in commercial agriculture among young university graduates in Ghana
Youth unemployment and under‐employment in Ghana represent a major concern for policymakers and young people themselves. While the agriculture sector has been touted as having the potential to offer employment to the teaming youth, there is little research focusing on the steps and pathways with which young university graduates navigate to engage in commercial cashew production to build their livelihood. Drawing on qualitative research conducted …
Imagining a future from the pit
Artisanal Small-Scale Mining (ASM) in rural northern Ghana provides significant income earning opportunities for young men and women. However, little is known about the role of ASM in the imagined futures of these young people. This paper draws ghhon a qualitative study involving semi-structured interviews and focus group discussions held with 35 rural youth to fill this information gap. Data were analysed using the thematic analysis approach. Th…
The social significance of children’s work in cashew supply chain activities in Ghana
The aim of this paper is to investigate the social significance of children's work in cashew supply chain activities in Ghana. Using survey and semi-structured interviews, we gathered data from 218 children working in cashew supply chain activities in Ghana. Data were analysed using descriptive statistics and thematic analysis approach. The results show that children's involvement in various stages of cashew supply chain activities is highly gend…
Youth in artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) and higher education nexus
Disenfranchising young people from customary land access; a case of commercialised cashew production in the Brong Ahafo Region of Ghana
This paper presents a political ecology analysis of intergenerational land dynamics in cashew-producing areas of Ghana’s Brong Ahafo Region. In particular, the paper explores how the growing commercialisation of cashew production for export is driving generational “land grabbing” by older generations and local elites. To do this, we gathered data through interviews, focus groups and observations. Data were analysed through the thematic approach, …
Broadening the Remittance Debate
The Ecowas Free Movement Protocol and Diversity of Experiences of Different Categories of Migrants
While studies have drawn attention to the operationalization, and implementation challenges associated with the ECOWAS free movement protocol, our understanding of how different categories of migrants experience the protocol is far more limited. Drawing on data from interviews conducted with 23 ECOWAS migrants living or travelling to Ghana, immigration officials and a trade union representative, this paper examines the diversity of experiences of…
Hard work and hazard
An emerging orthodoxy supports the proposition that the rural economy - built around agriculture but encompassing much more - will serve as sweet spot of employment opportunities for many millions of young people into the foreseeable future. However, our understanding of how rural young people in Africa take advantage of processes of rural transformation or engage with the rural economy is limited. Drawing on qualitative research conducted with 1…
Beyond patriotic discourse in financing the SDGs
Mobilising and sustaining investment flows are two interrelated challenges of development financing. Given the untapped potential of remittances and knowledge flows of sub-Saharan Africa diasporas, an investment-linked diaspora revenue bonds model is proposed to target three issues: generating diaspora investments, which will not be used to service sovereign debts; linking such investments to projects, programmes, and sectors with high economic r…
We want financial accountability
This article reports on the ways and factors that facilitate or constrain community participation in the Community-based Health Planning and Services (CHPS) programme in Nsanfo, a village in Central Region of Ghana. We found that the community made an important step through mobilising the necessary resources in establishing the CHPS compound, which has resulted in improved access to health care. Yet maintaining the facility did not matter most to…
Empowering and shaping gender relations? Contesting the microfinance-gender empowerment discourse
This article critically examines the role of microfinance in shaping gender relations and empowerment outcomes for women. One aim of advancing credit to women is to empower them, thereby increasing their bargaining power and challenging existing gender subordination. We caution against this view and instead show that the mainstream argument is much more complex than what the popular rhetoric preaches. We argue that lack of a systematic strategy t…
Can post-2015 sustainable development goals survive neoliberalism? A critical examination of the sustainable development–neoliberalism nexus in developing countries
Hard work and hazard
An emerging orthodoxy supports the proposition that the rural economy - built around agriculture but encompassing much more - will serve as sweet spot of employment opportunities for many millions of young people into the foreseeable future. However, our understanding of how rural young people in Africa take advantage of processes of rural transformation or engage with the rural economy is limited. Drawing on qualitative research conducted with 1…
Youth in artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) and higher education nexus
The Ecowas Free Movement Protocol and Diversity of Experiences of Different Categories of Migrants
While studies have drawn attention to the operationalization, and implementation challenges associated with the ECOWAS free movement protocol, our understanding of how different categories of migrants experience the protocol is far more limited. Drawing on data from interviews conducted with 23 ECOWAS migrants living or travelling to Ghana, immigration officials and a trade union representative, this paper examines the diversity of experiences of…
An Overview of the Obstacles to Gender Equality Processes in Rural and Urban Ghana
The differential impact of development efforts on women and men has critically brought out the need to take a gender-transformative approach to development processes. Despite the tremendous efforts made, there persist some seemingly impossible obstacles to gender equality. The main objective of this study was to analyze the main obstacles to gender equality in Ghana in rural and urban contexts to inform policy decisions. The study employed a mixe…
Empowering and shaping gender relations? Contesting the microfinance-gender empowerment discourse
This article critically examines the role of microfinance in shaping gender relations and empowerment outcomes for women. One aim of advancing credit to women is to empower them, thereby increasing their bargaining power and challenging existing gender subordination. We caution against this view and instead show that the mainstream argument is much more complex than what the popular rhetoric preaches. We argue that lack of a systematic strategy t…
Side‐hustling’ in commercial agriculture among young university graduates in Ghana
Youth unemployment and under‐employment in Ghana represent a major concern for policymakers and young people themselves. While the agriculture sector has been touted as having the potential to offer employment to the teaming youth, there is little research focusing on the steps and pathways with which young university graduates navigate to engage in commercial cashew production to build their livelihood. Drawing on qualitative research conducted …
The social significance of children’s work in cashew supply chain activities in Ghana
The aim of this paper is to investigate the social significance of children's work in cashew supply chain activities in Ghana. Using survey and semi-structured interviews, we gathered data from 218 children working in cashew supply chain activities in Ghana. Data were analysed using descriptive statistics and thematic analysis approach. The results show that children's involvement in various stages of cashew supply chain activities is highly gend…
Beyond patriotic discourse in financing the SDGs
Mobilising and sustaining investment flows are two interrelated challenges of development financing. Given the untapped potential of remittances and knowledge flows of sub-Saharan Africa diasporas, an investment-linked diaspora revenue bonds model is proposed to target three issues: generating diaspora investments, which will not be used to service sovereign debts; linking such investments to projects, programmes, and sectors with high economic r…
Can post-2015 sustainable development goals survive neoliberalism? A critical examination of the sustainable development–neoliberalism nexus in developing countries
Empowering and shaping gender relations? Contesting the microfinance-gender empowerment discourse
This article critically examines the role of microfinance in shaping gender relations and empowerment outcomes for women. One aim of advancing credit to women is to empower them, thereby increasing their bargaining power and challenging existing gender subordination. We caution against this view and instead show that the mainstream argument is much more complex than what the popular rhetoric preaches. We argue that lack of a systematic strategy t…
We want financial accountability
This article reports on the ways and factors that facilitate or constrain community participation in the Community-based Health Planning and Services (CHPS) programme in Nsanfo, a village in Central Region of Ghana. We found that the community made an important step through mobilising the necessary resources in establishing the CHPS compound, which has resulted in improved access to health care. Yet maintaining the facility did not matter most to…
Beyond patriotic discourse in financing the SDGs
Mobilising and sustaining investment flows are two interrelated challenges of development financing. Given the untapped potential of remittances and knowledge flows of sub-Saharan Africa diasporas, an investment-linked diaspora revenue bonds model is proposed to target three issues: generating diaspora investments, which will not be used to service sovereign debts; linking such investments to projects, programmes, and sectors with high economic r…
The Ecowas Free Movement Protocol and Diversity of Experiences of Different Categories of Migrants
While studies have drawn attention to the operationalization, and implementation challenges associated with the ECOWAS free movement protocol, our understanding of how different categories of migrants experience the protocol is far more limited. Drawing on data from interviews conducted with 23 ECOWAS migrants living or travelling to Ghana, immigration officials and a trade union representative, this paper examines the diversity of experiences of…
Hard work and hazard
An emerging orthodoxy supports the proposition that the rural economy - built around agriculture but encompassing much more - will serve as sweet spot of employment opportunities for many millions of young people into the foreseeable future. However, our understanding of how rural young people in Africa take advantage of processes of rural transformation or engage with the rural economy is limited. Drawing on qualitative research conducted with 1…
Broadening the Remittance Debate
Disenfranchising young people from customary land access; a case of commercialised cashew production in the Brong Ahafo Region of Ghana
This paper presents a political ecology analysis of intergenerational land dynamics in cashew-producing areas of Ghana’s Brong Ahafo Region. In particular, the paper explores how the growing commercialisation of cashew production for export is driving generational “land grabbing” by older generations and local elites. To do this, we gathered data through interviews, focus groups and observations. Data were analysed through the thematic approach, …
Imagining a future from the pit
Artisanal Small-Scale Mining (ASM) in rural northern Ghana provides significant income earning opportunities for young men and women. However, little is known about the role of ASM in the imagined futures of these young people. This paper draws ghhon a qualitative study involving semi-structured interviews and focus group discussions held with 35 rural youth to fill this information gap. Data were analysed using the thematic analysis approach. Th…
The social significance of children’s work in cashew supply chain activities in Ghana
The aim of this paper is to investigate the social significance of children's work in cashew supply chain activities in Ghana. Using survey and semi-structured interviews, we gathered data from 218 children working in cashew supply chain activities in Ghana. Data were analysed using descriptive statistics and thematic analysis approach. The results show that children's involvement in various stages of cashew supply chain activities is highly gend…
Youth in artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) and higher education nexus
Understanding non-economic loss and damage due to climate change in Ghana
The concept of non-economic loss and damage (NELD) of climate change has emerged strongly in the international policy arena in the past few years. Nonetheless, while research on climate-induced loss has focused on the economic dimension, the non-economic aspects have often been side-lined in academic research and policy debate. This paper draws on in-depth interviews and a focus group with farmers to develop a comprehensive understanding of clima…
Side‐hustling’ in commercial agriculture among young university graduates in Ghana
Youth unemployment and under‐employment in Ghana represent a major concern for policymakers and young people themselves. While the agriculture sector has been touted as having the potential to offer employment to the teaming youth, there is little research focusing on the steps and pathways with which young university graduates navigate to engage in commercial cashew production to build their livelihood. Drawing on qualitative research conducted …
Groundnut processing and women's economic empowerment
There is a growing recognition of the vital role that women play as the backbone of agricultural and small-scale processing activities. Women's empowerment has become central to international development, which emphasizes gender equality as both a human right and a driver of economic growth and sustainable development. This study focuses on Northern Ghana, a region with significant reliance on groundnut processing as a livelihood activity. Northe…
Understanding ecological grief as a response to climate change-induced loss in Ghana
The perceived effects of climate change on the environment are becoming a lived experience for many rural dwellers in poor countries. Several new concepts have emerged to describe the long-term mental health consequences of climate-induced effects, with ecological grief as a prime example. Yet empirical research showing how climate-related ecological loss drives grief and emotional distress among communities is limited, particularly within the co…
State-mandated decentralized irrigation reforms
The prospects and challenges of decentralized irrigation governance reforms are widely discussed. Less discussed, however, is the institutional design of these reforms and how and why it matters to our diagnosis of their successes or otherwise. We used and tested the state-reinforced self-governance (SRSG) framework to examine the institutional design of Ghana’s decentralized irrigation reform and whether self-governance capacities were granted t…
Northern NGO-centrism in localisation processes
This paper examines the process of discussing and designing actions to tackle power inequities by Northern and Southern NGOs. Drawing on 53 interviews with Northern and Southern NGOs, and NNGO networks, we argue that current localisation processes produce a form of cultural capital leveraged by competing Northern NGOs rooted in signalling solidarity with SNGOs and/or communities to donors through rhetorical and symbolic practices, reinforcing the…
An Overview of the Obstacles to Gender Equality Processes in Rural and Urban Ghana
The differential impact of development efforts on women and men has critically brought out the need to take a gender-transformative approach to development processes. Despite the tremendous efforts made, there persist some seemingly impossible obstacles to gender equality. The main objective of this study was to analyze the main obstacles to gender equality in Ghana in rural and urban contexts to inform policy decisions. The study employed a mixe…
When global agendas meet local politics
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) increasingly shape agricultural policy discourses across the Global South, yet their practical relevance and limitations in West Africa remain underexplored. This study interrogates the role of the SDGs in shaping agricultural policy priorities in West Africa and critically examines their limitations. Drawing on a systematic review of twenty –four peer-reviewed articles, policy reports, and institutional d…
The Voices of Working Children on the Trade-Offs from Working in Fisheries on the Volta Lake, Ghana
Transcalar advocacy collaborations among youth-led civil society organisations in Africa
While collaborations between civil society organisations (CSOs) in the Global North and South have been explored, the focus has largely been on the power dynamics and added value in collaborations. Although youth-led CSOs (YLCSOs) in the Global South engage in collaborations with stakeholders, the nature of such collaborations remains under-researched. Drawing on the concepts of transcalar advocacy, collaboration and NGOisation and data from qual…
Power and its discontents
NGOs are taking incremental steps to reconfigure power dynamics and foster more equal relationships between Northern and Southern actors. • Most actions to address North-South power imbalances do not fundamentally change power dynamics or tackle the root causes of inequality. • Most actions are Northern-led, running the risk of reinforcing power relations in the aid system. • NGO are making slow progress in shifting power and individual actions c…
Economics (14 works) · Economic growth (11 works) · Political science (11 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Business (10 works) · Geography (9 works) · International Development and Aid (5 works) · Socioeconomics (5 works) · Agriculture (4 works) · Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare (4 works)