JOSEPH AWETORI YARO
PROFESSOR
CollegeCOLLEGE OF HUMANITIES
School / InstituteSCHOOL OF SOCIAL SCIENCES
DepartmentDEPARTMENT OF GEOGRAPHY AND RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT
Agrarian ChangeRural developmentClimate changeMigrationFood security and Livelihoods
Publication activity
Publication statistics
Publications
127 matching publications
| Publication | Year | Journal | Thematic area | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dompoase landfill in the Kumasi metropolitan area of Ghana: a ‘blessing’or a ‘curse’? E Owusu-Sekyere, IK Osumanu, JA Yaro |
2013 | — | Social Sciences | 37 |
| Combating food insecurity in Northern Ghana: Rural livelihood strategies in Kajelo, Chiana and Korania JA Yaro |
2004 | Department of Sociology and Human Geography, University of Oslo, 2004 | Social Sciences | 37 |
| Of silent maids, skilled gardeners and careful madams: Gendered dynamics and strategies of migrant domestic workers in Accra, Ghana M Awumbila, JK Teye, JA Yaro |
2017 | GeoJournal 82 (5), 957-970, 2017 | Social Sciences | 35 |
| The contours of poverty in Northern Ghana: policy implications for combating food insecurity JA Yaro, J Hesselberg |
2010 | Institute of African Studies Research Review 26 (1), 81-112, 2010 | Social Sciences | 33 |
| Rural Development in northern Ghana JA Yaro |
2013 | Nova Science publishers, 2013 | Social Sciences | 32 |
| Farm to factory gendered employment: The case of blue skies outgrower scheme in Ghana GD Torvikey, JA Yaro, JK Teye |
2016 | Agrarian South: Journal of Political Economy 5 (1), 77-97, 2016 | Social Sciences | 31 |
| Political ecology and contours of vulnerability to water insecurity in semiarid north-eastern Ghana DH Dinko, J Yaro, J Kusimi |
2019 | Journal of Asian and African Studies 54 (2), 282-299, 2019 | Social Sciences | 29 |
| Migration and Population Dynamics: Changing Community Formations in Ghana. J Yaro, ANA Codjoe, S Agyei-Mensah, A Darkwah, SO Kwankye |
2011 | — | Social Sciences | 27 |
| An assessment of determinants of adaptive capacity to climate change/variability in the rural savannah of Ghana JA Yaro, JK Teye, S Bawakyillenuo |
2016 | Adaptation to climate change and Variability in rural West Africa, 59-82, 2016 | Natural Sciences | 26 |
| The story of northern Ghana JA Yaro |
2013 | Rural development in northern Ghana, 1-16, 2013 | Social Sciences | 21 |
| Rural transitions, economies and rural–urban links S Wiggins, R Sabates-Wheeler, J Yaro |
2018 | APRA working paper 11, 2018 | Social Sciences | 19 |
| Malaria control strategies in the Kassena-Nankana east and west districts of Ghana BA Azabre, JK Teye, JA Yaro |
2013 | Ghana Journal of Geography 5 (1), 102-120, 2013 | Social Sciences | 19 |
| Migration in West Africa: Patterns JA Yaro |
2008 | Issues and Challenges, 1-17, 2008 | Social Sciences | 17 |
| Recent transnational land deals and the local Agrarian Economy in Ghana D Tsikata, JA Yaro |
2015 | Africa's land rush: Rural livelihoods and Agrarian Change, 46-64, 2015 | Social Sciences | 16 |
| The life struggles and successes of the migrant construction worker in Accra, Ghana JA Yaro, M Awumbila, JK Teye |
2015 | Ghana Journal of Geography 7 (2), 113-131, 2015 | Social Sciences | 16 |
| 1. An Examination of Theories on Savannasation and the Peasant-Environment Debate JA Yaro |
2008 | West African Journal of Applied Ecology 13 (1), 1-15, 2008 | Social Sciences | 16 |
| Long-term change and agricultural commercialisation in Ghanaian cocoa KS Amanor, JA Yaro, JK Teye |
2020 | APRA Working Paper 31, 2020 | Agriculture | 13 |
| Religion and climate change in Ghana: Religious Actor perspectives and sustainable climate change policy BK Golo, JA Yaro |
2013 | Nature and Culture 8 (3), 282-300, 2013 | Natural Sciences | 12 |
| Chinese migration to Ghana: Challenging the orthodoxy on characterizing migrants and reasons for migration JK Teye, L Kandilige, M Setrana, J Yaro |
2022 | Ghana Journal of Geography 14 (2), 203-234, 2022 | Social Sciences | 11 |
| When agricultural commercialization fails:‘Re-visiting’value-chain agriculture and its ruins in northern Ghana AY Iddrisu, S Ouma, JA Yaro |
2022 | Globalizations, 1-21, 2022 | Agriculture | 11 |
| Land Rights and Vulnerabilities in the Kete Krachi Pilot Customary Land Secretariat Area P Yankson, A Asiedu, J Yaro |
2009 | Unpublished paper from Department of Geography and Resource Development …, 2009 | Social Sciences | 11 |
| Modernizing cocoa production in Ghana: successes, constraints, and future possibilities of innovation diffusion in the cocoa sector JK Teye, JA Yaro, S Wiggins |
2025 | African Geographical Review 44 (2), 135-148, 2025 | Agriculture | 10 |
| Knowledge, attitudes, and perception as predictors of COVID-19 safety practices of ride-hailing operators in Ghana: A cross-sectional study E Agyemang, JA Yaro |
2023 | International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 20 (5), 4529, 2023 | Health Sciences | 10 |
| The Drivers of Medium-Scale Farms and the Emerging Synergies and Contradictions Among Socially-Differentiated Farmers in Northern Ghana J Yaro, I Wahab, G Afful-Mensah, MB Awenam |
2021 | The Institute of Development Studies and Partner Organisations, 2021 | Social Sciences | 10 |
| The dynamics of south–south migration in Africa JA Yaro, MB Setrana |
2023 | The palgrave handbook of south–south migration and inequality, 183-199, 2023 | Social Sciences | 9 |