Evans Dawoe
Agroforestry Department
Faculty of Renewable Natural Resources
College of Agriculture and Natural Resources
Kwame Nkrumah University of Science
and Technology (KNUST)
Kumasi
Ghana
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Research Interests
My current research focuses primarily on the effects of agricultural land use (especially shade cocoa) on soil quality and nutrient cycling. I try to primarily understand the factors that control element cycling, soil organic matter dynamics, and greenhouse gas emissions following land-use change, and I attempt to find cost effective ways of restoring fertility and improving farm resilience for the benefit of predominantly resource poor farmers in the tropics.
My research goals closely aligned with creating a healthy socio-physical environment, by seeking to balance three long-term goals for sustainable agriculture: Environmental Health, Economic Profitability, and Social and Economic equity as I strive to understand complex relationships in agroecosystems. The philosophy driving my research goals is based on the premise that science should be used to promote the well-being of small-scale farmers and help them develop more ecologically friendly cost-effective farming systems by providing alternative management practices. Since solutions to agricultural problems are neither wholly technical nor wholly social, I attempt always to integrate both technical and social approaches in my research and its applications. I am of the conviction that every person involved in the food system — growers, food processors, distributors, retailers, consumers and waste managers can play a role in ensuring a sustainable agricultural system.
Education
2005.09 - 2009.07: PhD. Agroforestry, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana
Dissertation: Conversion of Natural Forest to Cocoa Agroforest in Lowland Humid Ghana: Impact on Plant Biomass Production, Organic Carbon and Nutrient Dynamics
1995. 09-1997.06: MSc. Appropriate Rural Technology and Extension Skills (ARTES); Universität Flensburg, Flensburg, Germany
1990.9-1993: MPhil. (Agroforestry), Institute of Renewable Natural Resources, KNUST, Kumasi
Work Experience
Senior Research Fellow and Lecturer: Agroforestry Department, Faculty of Renewable Natural Resources, KNUST, Kumasi, Ghana. 2013.8-present
Research Fellow and Lecturer: Agroforestry Department, Faculty of Renewable Natural Resources, KNUST, Kumasi. 2009.8-2013.7
Research Fellow: Technology Consultancy Centre, KNUST, Kumasi. 2003.4 – 2009. 7
Projects Coordinator: Ricerca e Cooperazione, (Italian International NGO), EU-Sponsored Agroforestry, Environmental Care and Sustainable Livelihoods in the Sefwi Wiawso District. 2000.5 - 2003.4
Selected Publications
i. Osei‐Tutu, G., Abunyewa, A. A., Dawoe, E. K., Agbenyega, O. A., Barnes, R. V. (2018)
Effect of multipurpose trees and shrubs on degraded mined-out soil in a semi‐deciduous forest zone of West Africa. Land Degradation Dev. (2018) 1-8 https://doi.org/10.1002/ldr.3110
ii. Dawoe, E. K., Barnes, V. R., Oppong, S. K. (2017) Spatio-temporal dynamics of gross rainfall partitioning and nutrient fluxes in shaded cocoa (Theobroma cocoa) systems in a tropical semi-deciduous forest. Agroforest Syst. DOI 10.1007/s10457-017-0108-3
iii. Asante, W. A., Dawoe, E., Acheampong, E., Bosu, P. P. (2017) A New Perspective on Forest Definition and Shade Regimes for Redd+ Interventions in Ghana’s Cocoa Landscape. Ghana J. Forestry 33: 1 – 15
iv. Cadger, K., Quaicoo, A. K., Dawoe, E., Isaac, M. E. (2016) Development Interventions and Agriculture Adaptation: A Social Network Analysis of Farmer Knowledge Transfer in Ghana. Agriculture 6:32; doi:10.3390
v. Monastyrnaya, E., Joerin, J., Dawoe, E., Six, J (2016) Assessing the resilience of the cocoa value chain in Ghana - Case study report. Sustainable Agroecosystems Group, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Switzerland. 137pp.
vi. Dawoe, E., Asante, W., Acheampong, E., Bosu, P. (2016) Shade tree diversity and aboveground carbon stocks in Theobroma cacao agroforestry systems: implications for REDD+ implementation in a West African cacao landscape. Carbon Balance Manage 11:1-17
vii. Isaac, M. E., L. C. N. Anglaaere, D. S. Akoto, and E. Dawoe (2014) Migrant farmers as information brokers: agroecosystem management in the transition zone of Ghana. Ecology and Society 19(2): 56.http://dx.doi.org/10.5751/ES-06589-190256