Lecturer
University for Development Studies
Ghana 

Dr. Abubakari Ahmed is currently a lecturer at the Department of Planning of the University for Development Studies (UDS), Ghana. Prior to joining UDS, he was a postdoc at the University of Trier in Germany and a recipient of a Humboldt Research Fellowship. His research focuses on sustainability assessment renewable energy options by examining the social, economic, and environmental impacts of various rural feedstock systems used in biofuel production. In climapAfrica, his research will seek to understand how collapsed biofuel projects have rather reinforced poverty, land degradation, and multiple ecological consequences, thereby serving as an inducer of climate change and a barrier to sustainable livelihood in rural areas of Ghana. 

Climate change expertise and interests

Biofuels, Rural energy, climate adaptation, water-energy-food nexus 

Publications (most recent)

Ahmed, A. and  Gasparatos, A. (2020). Multi-dimensional energy poverty patterns around industrial crop projects in Ghana: exploring the energy poverty alleviation potential of rural development strategies. Energy Policy. 137, 111123.  

Ahmed, A. Dompreh E, and Gasparatos, A (2019). Human wellbeing outcomes of involvement in industrial crop production: Evidence from sugarcane, oil palm and jatropha sites in Ghana. Plos One. 14(4): e0215433. https://doi.org/ 10.1371/journal.pone.0215433  

Ahmed, A. Gasparatos, A and Campion, B.T. (2017). Biofuel development in Ghana: policies of expansion and drivers of failure in the jatropha sector. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews. 70:133-149.

Professional career interests

I have interest in research related to rural clean energy cooking options and climate adaptation

I participate at climapAfrica because...

It offer unique opportunities for African researchers to contribute to the climate change discourse from the African perspective, develop networks amongst African as well as a collaboration with German experts thereby serving as a gateway for the internationalisation of Africans’ climate change research.