Ghanian partners have actively collaborated with the Dagaaba Indigenous people in 30 communities since the COVID-19 pandemic.
Rain-fed subsistence agriculture, pastoralism, hunting and gathering, freshwater fishing and dry season vegetable gardening.
Changes in precipitation pattern, droughts, floods, excessive warming conditions, and emergence of new invasive species that destroy crops.
Land tunure insecurity and patriachal and social norms that limit women's access to land.
Principal Investigator
University of Ghana
Ghana
PhD Adelina Mensah is a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Environment and Sanitation Studies, University of Ghana. She has an interdisciplinary background in environmental sciences with a focus on ecosystems and the human dimensions that impact its management and sustainability.
Collaborator
University of Ghana
Ghana
MSc Francis Awaafo Akugre is an early career researcher. Francis's research focuses on the climate change-food security and health nexus among indigenous societies in lower-middle-income countries, including vulnerable groups in society.
