Dr. John-Baptist Naah

Degrees / expertise

2012-2016: Ph.D. degree (Dr. rer. nat.) in Human Geography-Ethnoecology (Ethnobotany) at the Geographical Institute, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

2009-2011: MSc. degree in Technology and Resources Management in the Tropics and Subtropics, Technical University of Cologne, Germany  

2002-2006: BSc. degree in Natural Resources Management (Wildlife and Range Management), Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Kumasi, Ghana

Professional experience

John-Baptist Naah is a Ethnoecologist/Ethnobotanist. His research interests include Socio-Ecological System analyses, Natural Resource Management, Renewable Energies and Food Security issues. He now joins the Center for Development Research (ZEF) as a fellow of the BiomassWeb Young Post-Doc Program. Dr. Naah is currently researching on ''Community-level analyses of biomass-based value webs: The case of local actors in Northern Ghana (specifically Northern and Upper East Regions)''.

2017

John-Baptist S. Naah Ngmaadaba.  2017.  Towards an understanding and harnessing of local ecological knowledge of forage resources for sustainable rangeland management in West Africa’s Sudanian Savannas.  Ph.D. Thesis at  Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Resources.  University of Cologne  
Naah J. S. N., and R. T. Guuroh.  2017.  Factors influencing local ecological knowledge of forage resources: Ethnobotanical evidence from West Africa’s savannas.  Journal of Environmental Management, 188   : 297-307   . Further Information

2015

Naah J. S. N..  2015.  Evaluating impacts of distributed solar home systems in rural communities: Lessons learnt from Ghana Energy Development and Access Project in the Upper West Region of Ghana.  The Journal of Energy and Natural Resource Management, 4th issue   . (Open Access)   Further Information
Naah J. S. N. & J. Hamhaber.  2015.  Lighting up the villages: Livelihood impacts of decentralized stand-alone solar photovoltaic electrification in rural northern Ghana.  Journal of Natural Resources and Development, 5   : 1-13   . (Open Access)   Further Information

Forthcoming

Naah J. S. N., & Boris Braun.  Assessing forage species diversity, habitat distributions, abundance trends and ecological drivers from local agro-pastoralists’ perspectives in West Africa’s Savanna ecosystems.  .

Additionals, Curriculum Vitae
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Research themes
  • Land use and food security
  • Renewable energy
  • Environmental and climate change
Research countries
  • Ghana
Research projects

WASCAL: West African Science Service Center on Climate Change and Adapted Land Use (completed)

BiomassWeb: Improving Food Security in Africa through increased System Productivity of Biomass-based Value Webs (Active)

Professional experience

John-Baptist Naah is a Ethnoecologist/Ethnobotanist. His research interests include Socio-Ecological System analyses, Natural Resource Management, Renewable Energies and Food Security issues. He now joins the Center for Development Research (ZEF) as a fellow of the BiomassWeb Young Post-Doc Program. Dr. Naah is currently researching on ''Community-level analyses of biomass-based value webs: The case of local actors in Northern Ghana (specifically Northern and Upper East Regions)''.

Degrees

2012-2016: Ph.D. degree (Dr. rer. nat.) in Human Geography-Ethnoecology (Ethnobotany) at the Geographical Institute, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

2009-2011: MSc. degree in Technology and Resources Management in the Tropics and Subtropics, Technical University of Cologne, Germany  

2002-2006: BSc. degree in Natural Resources Management (Wildlife and Range Management), Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Kumasi, Ghana

Funding institutions

Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), Germany

Germany Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), Germany

Contacts

Center for Development Research (ZEF)

Walter-Flex-Str. 3

D - 53113 Bonn, Germany

Phone: +49 228 73 1721

John-Baptist Naah

Former Senior Researcher

Former Division/Group:
Ecology and Natural Resources Management

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