![Dr. James Kaba]()
DAAD climapAfrica Postdoctoral Fellow
Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST)
Ghana
Dr. James S. Kaba is a Lecturer and Researcher at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Ghana. His Research interest is in Crops Science, Soil Science, Plant nutrition, Climate change and Integrating Science with farmers’ knowledge. Dr. Kaba’s climapAfrica research project at the Department of Agroforestry, KNUST aims at Improving drought tolerance, growth and survival rate of cocoa (Theobroma cacao L) seedlings with potassium fertilizer and arbuscular mycorrhizae fungi (AMF).
His career ambition is to impact knowledge on students and make a significant mark in the lives of rural farmers, who depend on Agriculture as sourece of livelihood, by developing innovative and sustainable methods of improving crops yield.
Climate change expertise and interests
- Climate change adaptation
- Deforestation and land degradation
- Sustainable Agriculture programmes
- Carbon stock/sequestration
Publications (most recent)
Kaba James Seutra, Akwasi A. Abunyewa, Joseph Kugbe, Godswill K.S Kwashie, Emmanuella Owusu Ansah & Henrietta Andoh (2021). Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi and potassium fertilizer as plant biostimulants and alternative research for enhancing plants adaptation to drought stress: Opportunities for enhancing drought tolerance in cocoa (Theobroma cacao L.)tolerance in cocoa (Theobroma cacao L.). Sustainable Environment: An international journal of environmental health and sustainability Volume 7, 2021 - Issue 1. https://doi.org/10.1080/27658511.2021.1963927
Kaba Seutra James, Stefan Zerbe, Monica Agnolucci, Francesca Scandellari, Akwasi A. Abunyewa, Manuela Giovannetti, Massimo Tagliavini (2019). Atmospheric nitrogen fixation by gliricidia trees (Gliricidia sepium (Jacq.) Kunth ex Walp.) intercropped with cocoa (Theobroma cacao L.) in agroforestry systems. Plant Soil: 435:323-336. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11104-018-3897-x
Kaba Seutra James and Akwasi A. Abunyewa (2019). New aboveground biomass and nitrogen yield in different ages of gliricidia (Gliricidia sepium Jacq.) trees under different pruning intensities in moist semi-deciduous forest zone of Ghana. Agroforest System. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10457-019-00414-3
I participate at climapAfrica because...
because I want a bigger platform where I can connect with my colleagues and experts within my research area to improve my advocacy for a more sustainable farming practice in the face of threats from climate change.
