Frank Kwaku Agyei
Biographic Data
| ID | 913003 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Frank Kwaku Agyei |
| GIVEN NAMES | Frank Kwaku |
| FAMILY NAME | Agyei |
| SIGNATURE | AGYEI F K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9313-3704 |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 21 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Understanding resilience among displaced farmers and herders in Asante Akim North Municipality, Ghana
Farmer-herder conflict constitutes a major area of natural resource conflict in West Africa. In Ghana, the conflict has grown in intensity and impacts forced population displacement. This paper explores how displaced farmers and herders are developing resilience strategies to rebuild lives and livelihoods. The paper focuses on how the livelihoods of displaced farmers and herders have been affected; the practices developed by displaced persons to …
Financial autonomy and income for emergencies drive women at the Sekyere Afram Plains District of Ghana to produce charcoal
Although gender norms prevent females from accessing specific forest resources in some sub-Saharan African countries, some women defy the norms to engage in activities traditionally reserved for males. However, few studies have examined the factors that motivate females to defy gender norms. We investigated factors motivating some women in the Sekyere Afram Plains District of Ghana to produce charcoal as their male counterparts and the challenges…
Contextualising sustainable transhumant pastoralism
Transhumant pastoralism and sustainable development are two concepts that have long been treated as mutually exclusive elements in research on agriculture and livestock production. This study, therefore, aimed to establish the critical link between the two concepts by exploring the effects of transhumant pastoralism on economic, environmental and social sustainability, thereby conceptualising it within the broader sustainable development discours…
How farmer-herder conflicts reconfigure the authority of politico-legal institutions in Ghana
This article examines the consequences of farmer-herder conflict and the processes underlying how authority is sourced, maintained, and lost. It illustrates that farmer-herder conflicts are an important source of authority in rural Ghana. Yet, authority does not result from farmers hopping from one institution to another to authorize claims but rather through intense resistance from emerging social movements (farmers) against institutions. We sho…
Cattle violence
Emerging agro-pastoral policy initiatives aim to mediate farmer–herder conflicts by implementing a ranching policy. The government of Ghana constructed a 272 ha ranch at Wawase. Initially, there was little local opposition, allowing the ranch to be established and to experience a large growth in cattle population. However, the ranch began to experience difficulties. This paper explores why the government’s ranching intervention has not worked, by…
Charcoal politics in Africa
Charcoal is a primary urban energy source throughout Africa; it is also blamed for massive environmental harm, in particular deforestation and forest degradation. Despite its centrality to urbanization, rural economies, and contemporary environmental transformations, however, charcoal's politics have been relatively underexplored. This article develops three approaches to the study of charcoal politics in Africa by critically assessing the existi…
From crisis to context
Customary authorities and decentralized natural resource management
Drivers of cocoa encroachment into protected forests
The study sought to unearth the immediate causes and underlying factors that fuel cocoa-driven deforestation in Ghana through four pathways: interviews, participatory rural appraisal techniques, facilitated community workshops and field observations in five forest-fringe and two admitted communities of Ghana's Ashanti and Western North Regions. The study found agricultural expansion and infrastructure extension to be the proximate causes of defor…
Decentralized forest governance and community representation outcomes
Access along Ghana’s charcoal commodity chain
Charcoal production and exchange is lucrative across sub-Saharan Africa. But who profits along the charcoal commodity chains? By mapping access along the charcoal chain in Ghana, based on interviews with 650 actors, this article traces out the social and political-economic relations by which charcoal benefits are distributed. It illuminates how access and the mechanisms used by various groups of actors to maintain and control access are dynamic i…
Forestry officials don't have any land or rights here”
Representation without accountability in forestry
Biodiversity, environmental health and human well-being
Access along Ghana’s charcoal commodity chain
Charcoal production and exchange is lucrative across sub-Saharan Africa. But who profits along the charcoal commodity chains? By mapping access along the charcoal chain in Ghana, based on interviews with 650 actors, this article traces out the social and political-economic relations by which charcoal benefits are distributed. It illuminates how access and the mechanisms used by various groups of actors to maintain and control access are dynamic i…
From crisis to context
Forestry officials don't have any land or rights here”
How farmer-herder conflicts reconfigure the authority of politico-legal institutions in Ghana
This article examines the consequences of farmer-herder conflict and the processes underlying how authority is sourced, maintained, and lost. It illustrates that farmer-herder conflicts are an important source of authority in rural Ghana. Yet, authority does not result from farmers hopping from one institution to another to authorize claims but rather through intense resistance from emerging social movements (farmers) against institutions. We sho…
Charcoal politics in Africa
Charcoal is a primary urban energy source throughout Africa; it is also blamed for massive environmental harm, in particular deforestation and forest degradation. Despite its centrality to urbanization, rural economies, and contemporary environmental transformations, however, charcoal's politics have been relatively underexplored. This article develops three approaches to the study of charcoal politics in Africa by critically assessing the existi…
Representation without accountability in forestry
Biodiversity, environmental health and human well-being
Representation without accountability in forestry
Access along Ghana’s charcoal commodity chain
Charcoal production and exchange is lucrative across sub-Saharan Africa. But who profits along the charcoal commodity chains? By mapping access along the charcoal chain in Ghana, based on interviews with 650 actors, this article traces out the social and political-economic relations by which charcoal benefits are distributed. It illuminates how access and the mechanisms used by various groups of actors to maintain and control access are dynamic i…
Forestry officials don't have any land or rights here”
Drivers of cocoa encroachment into protected forests
The study sought to unearth the immediate causes and underlying factors that fuel cocoa-driven deforestation in Ghana through four pathways: interviews, participatory rural appraisal techniques, facilitated community workshops and field observations in five forest-fringe and two admitted communities of Ghana's Ashanti and Western North Regions. The study found agricultural expansion and infrastructure extension to be the proximate causes of defor…
Decentralized forest governance and community representation outcomes
Customary authorities and decentralized natural resource management
From crisis to context
Charcoal politics in Africa
Charcoal is a primary urban energy source throughout Africa; it is also blamed for massive environmental harm, in particular deforestation and forest degradation. Despite its centrality to urbanization, rural economies, and contemporary environmental transformations, however, charcoal's politics have been relatively underexplored. This article develops three approaches to the study of charcoal politics in Africa by critically assessing the existi…
Cattle violence
Emerging agro-pastoral policy initiatives aim to mediate farmer–herder conflicts by implementing a ranching policy. The government of Ghana constructed a 272 ha ranch at Wawase. Initially, there was little local opposition, allowing the ranch to be established and to experience a large growth in cattle population. However, the ranch began to experience difficulties. This paper explores why the government’s ranching intervention has not worked, by…
Financial autonomy and income for emergencies drive women at the Sekyere Afram Plains District of Ghana to produce charcoal
Although gender norms prevent females from accessing specific forest resources in some sub-Saharan African countries, some women defy the norms to engage in activities traditionally reserved for males. However, few studies have examined the factors that motivate females to defy gender norms. We investigated factors motivating some women in the Sekyere Afram Plains District of Ghana to produce charcoal as their male counterparts and the challenges…
Contextualising sustainable transhumant pastoralism
Transhumant pastoralism and sustainable development are two concepts that have long been treated as mutually exclusive elements in research on agriculture and livestock production. This study, therefore, aimed to establish the critical link between the two concepts by exploring the effects of transhumant pastoralism on economic, environmental and social sustainability, thereby conceptualising it within the broader sustainable development discours…
How farmer-herder conflicts reconfigure the authority of politico-legal institutions in Ghana
This article examines the consequences of farmer-herder conflict and the processes underlying how authority is sourced, maintained, and lost. It illustrates that farmer-herder conflicts are an important source of authority in rural Ghana. Yet, authority does not result from farmers hopping from one institution to another to authorize claims but rather through intense resistance from emerging social movements (farmers) against institutions. We sho…
Understanding resilience among displaced farmers and herders in Asante Akim North Municipality, Ghana
Farmer-herder conflict constitutes a major area of natural resource conflict in West Africa. In Ghana, the conflict has grown in intensity and impacts forced population displacement. This paper explores how displaced farmers and herders are developing resilience strategies to rebuild lives and livelihoods. The paper focuses on how the livelihoods of displaced farmers and herders have been affected; the practices developed by displaced persons to …
Political science (10 works) · Business (7 works) · Economics (6 works) · Finance (6 works) · Geography (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development (5 works) · Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Mining and Resource Management (5 works)