![Dr. Rebecca Sarku]()
DAAD climapAfrica Postdoctoral Fellow
University for Development Studies
Ghana
Dr. Rebecca Sarku is a postdoctoral fellow at West African Center for Water, Irrigation and Sustainable Agriculture, University for Development Studies, Tamale. She holds a Master of Philosophy degree in Geography and Resource development and a PhD in Public Administration and Policy by Wageningen University and Research, Netherlands. She also studied Geography, Resource, and Rural Development at the University of Ghana and the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology. Rebecca has been involved in numerous research projects related to rural development, ICTs, agriculture and food security. She was a Research Fellow at the Institute for Money, Technology, and Financial Inclusion-University of California, Irvine (2015- 2016), sponsored by the Bill and Melinda Gate Foundation. Rebecca was also a fellow of Sam Moyo African Institute for Agrarian Studies (SMAIAS) organised by the Sam Moyo Agrarian Training Institute, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the Agrarian South Network. Additionally, she is a fellow of African Women Agricultural Research and Development (AWARD). Dr. Sarku’s research currently focuses on the application of citizen science participatory environmental monitoring approach to co-produce weather and seasonal-based crop pest and disease forecast by integrating scientific forecast and farmers’ local knowledge on weather indicators as an early warning information to support adaptive decision-making in coastal savanna farming, near Accra, Ghana.
Climate change interests
- Mult-Stakeholder Partnership for Food Systems
- Designing Innovative Governance Arrangement
- Climate Change Adaptation, Climate Information Service
- Climate Change Adaptation and Rural Development
Publications (most recent)
Sarku R., Appiah D.O., Adiku P., Alare R.S., Dotsey S. (2021). Digital Platforms in Climate Information Service Delivery for Farming in Ghana. In: Leal Filho W., Ogugu N., Adelake L., Ayal D., da Silva I. (eds) African Handbook of Climate Change Adaptation. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-42091-8_44-1.
Rebecca Sarku, Art Dewulf, Erik van Slobbe, Katrien Termeer, Kranjac-Berisavljevic. Adaptive decision-making under conditions of uncertainty: The case of peri-urban farming in the Volta delta, Ghana. Journal of integrative environmental sciences, 17(1), 1–33. (2020) https://doi.org/10.1080/1943815X.2020.1729207.
Rebecca Sarku, Talardia Gbangou, Art Dewulf, Erik van Slobbe. Beyond “Expert Knowledge”: Locals and Experts in a Joint Production of Weather App and Weather Information for Farming in the Volta Delta, Ghana. In: Leal Filho W., Luetz J., Ayal D. (eds) Handbook of Climate Change Management. Springer, (2020) Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-22759-3_114-1.
I participate at climapAfrica because
It creates a platform that enhances my visibility as a female scientist through networking and exchange of knowledge with other researchers. Since each fellow shares the same vision of contributing to knowledge on climate change mitigation and adaptation, it provides opportunity to share ideas and collaborate for future research agenda on climate change issues in Africa.
