David Anaafo
Biographic Data
| ID | 637743 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David Anaafo |
| GIVEN NAMES | David |
| FAMILY NAME | Anaafo |
| SIGNATURE | ANAAFO D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Energy and Natural Resources |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7472-9687 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 17 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Gender, land rights and climate change adaptation in Ghana
Energy-Induced Land Acquisition and Emerging Labor Configurations Around Ghana’s Bui Dam
The coupled effect of worsening climatic conditions and persistent energy crises is driving a steady evolution of green energy sources across the developing world. Preference for hydropower is higher for its affordability and efficient energy storage, conversion rate, and electricity production. However, dams, which facilitate hydropower production, always involve painful tradeoffs between satisfying a national demand and safeguarding rural agrar…
Temporary Structures, Permanent Challenges
Navigating informality
Navigating between local visions and goals of national policies for sustainable land management in Ghana
This study sought to understand the extent to which goals of national land policies are reflective of the visions of diverse land users for sustainable land management in northern Ghana. The study is qualitative and employs semi-structured interviews, a multi-stakeholder workshop, and document reviews, to unpack the synergies between national land policies and stakeholders’ visions for sustainable land management in northern Ghana. The study find…
Challenges Associated with formalising Artisanal Small-Scale Mining in Ghana
The illegal artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) activities in Ghana are persistently booming even after governments' several attempts to halt the menace and streamline their modus operandi towards formalisation. This is because the formalisation attempts by the governments of Ghana have been associated with several challenges. Hence, this paper examines the challenges hampering the formalisation of illegal ASM in Ghana and the ways to overcome…
Wastes in the wild
Available data show that the number of tourists visiting Ghana’s national parks has increased noticeably. Visitors usually carry with them plastic materials for their convenience and use, which are eventually disposed-of in the parks. Primarily, ensuring that national parks, which are ecologically sensitive natural environments are free of plastic waste is a major challenge for park managers. This research, therefore, sought to understand the dif…
Place making decisions among informal street food vendors in Sunyani, Ghana
Custom, modernity, and stability of land rights in Ghana
Land in Ghana is mostly governed by customary tenure systems. The sole purpose is ensuring the egalitarian use of land resources to secure the welfare of customary families and individuals with common interest in land. However, a confluence of issues including obstinate national policies on land, globalization, and land grabbing, and changing socio-economic context, have synergistically altered the customary regimes with varied and complex conseq…
Impact of land use and climate change on forest reserves in Ghana
Using supervised classified Landsat 7 images ETM – 2000 and 2010 and Landsat 8 images – 2020, this study examines the various Land Use Land Cover Changes (LULCC) in the Bosomkese forest reserve in Ghana. The study recorded significant changes in all the various forest covers driven predominately by illegal logging, bushfires, illegal farming, and agricultural expansion projects within the reserve. These results suggest that there is a need for st…
Experiential Knowledge of urbanites on climatic changes in the Sunyani municipality, Ghana
Experiential Knowledge (EK) is essential to our understanding of any social system and its evolution over time. With respect to climate change, EK is important because it serves as the basis for locally grounded, and place-sensitive adaptation and mitigation measures. However, despite the rapid urbanization, depletion of vegetative cover, and noticeable changes in the local climate of Sunyani, a mid-sized city in Ghana, limited empirical studies …
Spatial planning in the digital age
Planning practice has evolved from technocratic to participatory approaches. This is driven by the need to ensure that the stakeholders of development programmes are involved in making decisions. However, participatory planning, often excludes interested publics from planning processes, due to several barriers. As such there is a recourse to digital technologies aimed at broadening participation of interested publics in planning processes. This s…
Assessing the practicality of the Covid-19 social distancing guidelines to the urban poor in the Ghanaian context
Globally, the novel coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19) has brought to the fore enormous challenges for policy makers, particularly, as they relate to economic and public health systems. The already weakened global economic situation will be exacerbated by future uncertainties if pragmatic and innovative policies are not put in place to control the spread of the virus and minimize the socio-economic impact of the disease. To slowdown the spread of th…
Do land reforms have adverse impacts on the livelihoods of poor land users? Evidence from the Nkoranza South Municipality, Ghana
Poverty reduction is the overarching goal of most development interventions in the developing world. From 2004, Ghana has been implementing a land reform policy/programme that seeks to improve tenure security and reduce poverty. The present study uses qualitative methods to analyse the extent to which land reforms are enabling or inhibiting poor land users in Ghana to exit poverty and improve their living standards. The study finds that Ghana’s l…
Land Governance and Decentralised Physical Planning in mid-Sized Cities in Ghana
Land reforms and land rights change
Systems approach to pro-poor land reforms
Land reforms and land rights change
Systems approach to pro-poor land reforms
Challenges Associated with formalising Artisanal Small-Scale Mining in Ghana
The illegal artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) activities in Ghana are persistently booming even after governments' several attempts to halt the menace and streamline their modus operandi towards formalisation. This is because the formalisation attempts by the governments of Ghana have been associated with several challenges. Hence, this paper examines the challenges hampering the formalisation of illegal ASM in Ghana and the ways to overcome…
Experiential Knowledge of urbanites on climatic changes in the Sunyani municipality, Ghana
Experiential Knowledge (EK) is essential to our understanding of any social system and its evolution over time. With respect to climate change, EK is important because it serves as the basis for locally grounded, and place-sensitive adaptation and mitigation measures. However, despite the rapid urbanization, depletion of vegetative cover, and noticeable changes in the local climate of Sunyani, a mid-sized city in Ghana, limited empirical studies …
Systems approach to pro-poor land reforms
Land Governance and Decentralised Physical Planning in mid-Sized Cities in Ghana
Land reforms and land rights change
Do land reforms have adverse impacts on the livelihoods of poor land users? Evidence from the Nkoranza South Municipality, Ghana
Poverty reduction is the overarching goal of most development interventions in the developing world. From 2004, Ghana has been implementing a land reform policy/programme that seeks to improve tenure security and reduce poverty. The present study uses qualitative methods to analyse the extent to which land reforms are enabling or inhibiting poor land users in Ghana to exit poverty and improve their living standards. The study finds that Ghana’s l…
Assessing the practicality of the Covid-19 social distancing guidelines to the urban poor in the Ghanaian context
Globally, the novel coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19) has brought to the fore enormous challenges for policy makers, particularly, as they relate to economic and public health systems. The already weakened global economic situation will be exacerbated by future uncertainties if pragmatic and innovative policies are not put in place to control the spread of the virus and minimize the socio-economic impact of the disease. To slowdown the spread of th…
Spatial planning in the digital age
Planning practice has evolved from technocratic to participatory approaches. This is driven by the need to ensure that the stakeholders of development programmes are involved in making decisions. However, participatory planning, often excludes interested publics from planning processes, due to several barriers. As such there is a recourse to digital technologies aimed at broadening participation of interested publics in planning processes. This s…
Experiential Knowledge of urbanites on climatic changes in the Sunyani municipality, Ghana
Experiential Knowledge (EK) is essential to our understanding of any social system and its evolution over time. With respect to climate change, EK is important because it serves as the basis for locally grounded, and place-sensitive adaptation and mitigation measures. However, despite the rapid urbanization, depletion of vegetative cover, and noticeable changes in the local climate of Sunyani, a mid-sized city in Ghana, limited empirical studies …
Custom, modernity, and stability of land rights in Ghana
Land in Ghana is mostly governed by customary tenure systems. The sole purpose is ensuring the egalitarian use of land resources to secure the welfare of customary families and individuals with common interest in land. However, a confluence of issues including obstinate national policies on land, globalization, and land grabbing, and changing socio-economic context, have synergistically altered the customary regimes with varied and complex conseq…
Impact of land use and climate change on forest reserves in Ghana
Using supervised classified Landsat 7 images ETM – 2000 and 2010 and Landsat 8 images – 2020, this study examines the various Land Use Land Cover Changes (LULCC) in the Bosomkese forest reserve in Ghana. The study recorded significant changes in all the various forest covers driven predominately by illegal logging, bushfires, illegal farming, and agricultural expansion projects within the reserve. These results suggest that there is a need for st…
Wastes in the wild
Available data show that the number of tourists visiting Ghana’s national parks has increased noticeably. Visitors usually carry with them plastic materials for their convenience and use, which are eventually disposed-of in the parks. Primarily, ensuring that national parks, which are ecologically sensitive natural environments are free of plastic waste is a major challenge for park managers. This research, therefore, sought to understand the dif…
Place making decisions among informal street food vendors in Sunyani, Ghana
Temporary Structures, Permanent Challenges
Navigating informality
Navigating between local visions and goals of national policies for sustainable land management in Ghana
This study sought to understand the extent to which goals of national land policies are reflective of the visions of diverse land users for sustainable land management in northern Ghana. The study is qualitative and employs semi-structured interviews, a multi-stakeholder workshop, and document reviews, to unpack the synergies between national land policies and stakeholders’ visions for sustainable land management in northern Ghana. The study find…
Challenges Associated with formalising Artisanal Small-Scale Mining in Ghana
The illegal artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) activities in Ghana are persistently booming even after governments' several attempts to halt the menace and streamline their modus operandi towards formalisation. This is because the formalisation attempts by the governments of Ghana have been associated with several challenges. Hence, this paper examines the challenges hampering the formalisation of illegal ASM in Ghana and the ways to overcome…
Gender, land rights and climate change adaptation in Ghana
Energy-Induced Land Acquisition and Emerging Labor Configurations Around Ghana’s Bui Dam
The coupled effect of worsening climatic conditions and persistent energy crises is driving a steady evolution of green energy sources across the developing world. Preference for hydropower is higher for its affordability and efficient energy storage, conversion rate, and electricity production. However, dams, which facilitate hydropower production, always involve painful tradeoffs between satisfying a national demand and safeguarding rural agrar…
Geography (13 works) · Political science (9 works) · Business (8 works) · Economics (8 works) · Land Rights and Reforms (8 works) · Land use (7 works) · Urban and Rural Development Challenges (7 works) · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development (6 works) · Corporate governance (6 works) · Economic growth (6 works)