DAAD climapAfrica Postdoctoral Fellow
Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology
Ghana
Dr. Emmanuel Amoakwah is a researcher from the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research – Soil Research Institute, Ghana, and . He holds a Master in Physical Land Resources from Ghent University, Belgium and a PhD in Soil Science under a joint PhD Program between University of Cape Coast (Ghana), Aarhus University (Denmark) and The Ohio State University (United States). Dr. Amoakwah is a Borlaug Leadership Enhancement in Agriculture Program scholar, and currently the Head of the Land Evaluation Program of the CSIR – Soil Research Institute, Ghana. He has collaborated with a number of local and international organisations including Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), International Fertilizer Development Centre (IFDC), National Institute of Agricultural Science, Jeonju, Korea, OCP Group, etc. Dr Amoakwah currently focuses his research interests on land-use change impact on carbon and nitrogen stoichiometry, greenhouse gas emissions, field diagnosis of soil properties and fertilizer recommendation, biochar and soil quality, water retention and gas transport, and ecological modelling.
Climate change interests
- Monitoring of greenhouse gases (GHGs) and development of GHGs emission indices
- Land use change impact assessment
- Carbon quality and storage
- Modeling carbon and nitrogen dynamics and sequestration,
- Climate-smart agriculture
Publications (most recent)
Emmanuel Amoakwah, Shamin Ahsan, Mohammad Arifur Rahman, Eric Aasamoah, D.K. Essumng, Musheda Ali, and Khandakar Rafiq Islam (2020). Assessment of Heavy Metal Pollution of Soil-water-vegetative Ecosystems Associated with Artisanal Gold Mining, Soil and Sediment Contamination; Soil and Sediment Contamination: An International Journal, 29:7, 788-803. DOI:
10.1080/15320383.2020.1777936
Amoakwah, E., Arthur, E., Frimpong, K.A., Rafiq, K.R. and Parikh, S. (2020). Soil organic carbon storage and quality are impacted by corn cob biochar application on a tropical sandy loam; J Soils Sediments, 20, 1960–1969.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11368-019-02547-5
Amoakwah, E., Frimpong, K.A., Okae-Anti, D., and Arthur, E. (2017). Soil water retention, air flow and pore structure characteristics after corn cob biochar application to a tropical sandy loam; Geoderma, 307: 189-197. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.geoderma.2017.08.025
I participate at climapAfrica because
ClimapAfrica is a capacity-building platform for young postdoctoral research scientists to interact, work closely and collaborate with experienced senior climate scientists to create awareness about the value of climate change impact and land-use information among decision makers and stakeholders for enhanced ecosystem functions and services.