WEST AFRICAN CENTER FOR SUSTAINABLE RURAL TRANSFORMATION (WAC-SRT)

• Ayamga, M. “Contract Farming and Smallholder Farmer Productivity in Northern Ghana: Does Farm Size Matter?” Ghana Journal of Science, Technology and Development (accepted for publication)
• Konja, D. T., F. N. Mabe, and M. Ayamga, (2023) Socioeconomic factors considered in adoption and use intensity of certified groundnut seed in Northern Ghana: Cragg’s double-hurdle model approach. 15(2), pp. 63-71 April-June 2023.    https://doi.org/10.5897/JAERD2021.1292
• Abdallah, A.-H., Ayamga, M. and Awuni, J.A. (2023) “Large-Scale Land Acquisition and Household Farm Investment in Northern Ghana”. Land 2023, 12, 737. https://doi.org/10.3390/land12040737
• Ayamga, M., Abdallah, AH. & Awuni, J.A. (2022) Large-scale land acquisition and farmland access nexus: evidence from agricultural households in northern Ghana. GeoJournal (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10708-022-10813-2 
• Awuni JA, Ayamga M, Dagunga G (2022) “Covid-19 vaccination intensions among literate Ghanaians: Still the need to dissipate  fear and build trust on vaccine efficacy”? PLoS ONE 17(6): e0270742. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0270742 
• Abdul‑Hanan, A,. Ayamga, M & Awuni, J. A. (2022). “Impact of land grabbing on food security: evidence from Ghana”. Environment, Development and Sustainability https://doi.org/10.1007/s10668-022-02294-7 
• Gilbert Dagunga , Micheal Ayamaga & Danso-Abbeam Gideon (2021) “A re-look at poverty through the lens of the Sustainable Development Goals in Ghana: drivers and policy implications: Journal of Poverty. https://doi.org/10.1080/10875549.2020.1869661 
• Michael Ayamga and Wolfram Laube (2020) “From transnational corporations to domestic medium-scale investors: an exposition of land deals in northern Ghana”. Resource Investments and Extractivism: Societal negotiations and the role of law  ZEF Development Studies, Volume 31. Wolfram Laube, Aline R. B. Pereira (Eds) LIT Verlag Münster, 2020 ISBN: 3643910959, 9783643910950
• Dagunga, G., Ayamga, M., & Danso-Abbeam, G (2020) “To what extent should farm households diversify? Implications on multidimensional poverty in Ghana” World Development Perspectives Volume 20, December 2020, 100264 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wdp.2020.100264  
• Mabe, F N., Ayamga, M. & Amadu, M (2020) “Livelihood security of rural households in Northern Ghana: do forests matter?” Environment, Development and Sustainability https://doi.org/10.1007/s10668-020-00981-x
• Misbawu Amadu, Ayamga, M & Mabe, F. N (2020) “Assessing the value of forest resources to rural households: A case of forest-fringe communities in the Northern Region of Ghana” Environmental Development, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envdev.2020.100577
• Nketiah, P. Ayamga, M. and Mabe, F. N. (2019). Land Deals and Small-Scale Intensive Farming Decisions. Review of Agricultural and Applied Economics. ISSN 1336-9261, XXII (Number 2, 2019): 18-25
• Abdallah, A-H., Ayamga, M., Awuni, J.A. and Donkoh, S.A. (2018) ‘The reality of  market inefficiencies and technology adoption nexus: evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa’, Int. J. Agricultural Resources, Governance and Ecology, Vol. 14, No. 3, pp.287–307.
• Abdallah, A., Ayamga, M., & Awuni, J.A (2018) "Impact of agricultural credit on farm income under the Savanna and Transitional zones of Ghana", Agricultural Finance Review, https://doi.org/10.1108/AFR-02-2018-0009
• Osman, A., Donkoh, S. A., Ayamga, M. & Ansah, I. G. K. (2018) “Economic Efficiency of Soybeans Production in The Northern Region of Ghana”. Ghana Journal of Agricultural Economics and Agribusiness Vol 1(1): August 2018. ISSN 2637-3521. 
• Ayambila, S., Osei-Akoto, I., & Ayamga. M (2017) “Determinants of Non-Farm Micro and Small Enterprise Participation in Rural Ghana” British Journal of Economics, Management & Trade 17(4): 1-12, 2017; Article no. BJEMT.33814 ISSN: 2278-098X
• Ansah, I. G. K., Kotu, B. H., Manda, J., Muthoni, F., and Azzarri, C. (2023). Mediation and moderation roles of resilience capacity in the shock–food-security nexus in northern Ghana. Ecological Economics 211, 107894.
• Ansah, I. G. K., Appiah-Twumasi, M., and Tsiboe, F. (2023). Starchy staples production shortfalls in Ghana: Technical inefficiency effects outweigh technological differences across ecologies. PLOS ONE 18, e0284780.
• Ansah, I. G. K., Gardebroek, C., and Ihle, R. (2022). Using assets as resilience capacities for stabilizing food demand of vulnerable households. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction 82, 103352.
• Appiah-Twumasi, M., Donkoh, S. A., and Ansah, I. G. K. (2022). Innovations in smallholder agricultural financing and economic efficiency of maize production in Ghana’s northern region. Heliyon 8, e12087.
• Ansah, I. G. K., Tampaa, F., & Tetteh, B. K. D. (2021). Farmers’ control strategies against fall armyworm and determinants of implementation in two districts of the Upper West Region of Ghana. International Journal of Pest Management, 1-15. doi:10.1080/09670874.2021.2015008
• Bellwood‐Howard, I., Ansah, I. G. K., Donkoh, S. A., & Korbéogo, G. (2021). Managing seasonality in West African informal urban vegetable markets: the role of household relations. Journal of International Development. doi:10.1002/jid.3562.
• Ansah, I. G. K., Gardebroek, C., & Ihle, R. (2021). Shock interactions, coping strategy choices and household food security. Climate and Development, 13(5), 414-426. doi:10.1080/17565529.2020.1785832.
• Tetteh, B. K. D., Ansah, I. G. K., Donkoh, S. A., Appiah-Twumasi, M., Avornyo, F. K., Shaibu, M. T., Partey, S., Zougmore, R. B., Tengan, K., Nyuor, A., Afosah, E., Akufo, N. M. (2020). Perceptions of weather variability and climate change on goat producers’ choice of coping and adaptation strategies: evidence from climate-smart and non-climate-smart villages in the Jirapa and Lawra districts. Climate and Development, 12(7), 614-625. doi:10.1080/17565529.2019.1664975.
• Damba, O. T., Ansah, I. G. K., Donkoh, S. A., Alhassan, A., Mullins, G. R., Yussif, K., Taylor, M. S., Tetteh, B. K. D., and Appiah-Twumasi, M. (2020). Effects of technology dissemination approaches on agricultural technology uptake and utilization in Northern Ghana. Technology in Society, 62, 101294. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techsoc.2020.101294.
• Ansah, I. G. K., Marfo, E., & Donkoh, S. A. (2020). Food demand characteristics in Ghana: an application of the quadratic almost ideal demand systems. Scientific African, 8, e00293. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sciaf.2020.e00293.
• Ansah, I. G. K., Lambongang, M., & Donkoh, S. A. (2020). Ghana’s Planting for Food and Jobs programme: a look at the role of capability in farmers’ participation. Journal of Human Development and Capabilities, 21(2), 161-182. doi:10.1080/19452829.2020.1745162.