Background

Yussif Abdul-Rahman Seini has an MSc in Agricultural Economics and BSc (Agriculture) from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Kumasi, Ghana. He is currently pursuing a PhD in Agricultural Economics, investigating the efficiency and welfare impacts of fonio cultivation among smallholder farmers in northern Ghana. He has worked extensively in the Cocoa Sector of the economy of Ghana, through which he gathered very significant agribusiness experiences. In this regard, he worked in a Licensed cocoa buying company for about ten (10) years, practically engaged in market research, monitoring and evaluation, farmer group development, implementation of social enterprise programs, management of cocoa purchases and stock, risk management and general administration. He has been a lecturer at the Department of Food Security and Climate Change since 2013. He has taught the following courses over the period, Environmental and Sustainable Agriculture, Environmental and Social Impacts of Climate Change, Basic Environmental and Health Economics, Agricultural Finance and Management, Agricultural Production Economics and Farm Management, Principles of Management, and Engineering Economics and Entrepreneurship. His main research areas are Agricultural household analysis and food security, Agribusiness management and finance, Sustainable Agriculture, Climate Change adaptations and mitigation analysis and impact assessment of interventions. In collaboration with a research team from Fort Valley State University (FVSU) of the USA, he facilitated a research project titled ‘Enhancing the Value Chain, Market Information Systems and the Role of Small-Scale Farmers and Women in the Cowpea Industry of the Northern Region of Ghana’ with a USDA grant.

Email address: abdul.rahman@uds.edu.gh