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JOSEPH AWETORI YARO

PROFESSOR

Verified email at ug.edu.gh Professor, Geography, University of Ghana Google Scholar

CollegeCOLLEGE OF HUMANITIES
School / InstituteSCHOOL OF SOCIAL SCIENCES
DepartmentDEPARTMENT OF GEOGRAPHY AND RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT
Agrarian ChangeRural developmentClimate changeMigrationFood security and Livelihoods
Publications

127

Citations

3,840

H-index

31

i10-index

49

Publication activity
Publication statistics
Average citations
30.2
Most cited paper
278
First publication year
1900
Latest publication year
2025
Last updated
14 Sep 2026, 08:32
Publications

127 matching publications

PublicationYearJournalThematic areaCitations
Customary land tenure, Investment and livelihoods adaptation in Northern Ghana
JA Yaro, A Z
1900 Ogua Journal of Social Science (JOSS) 4 (3), 59-82, 0 Social Sciences 3
The struggle to intensify cocoa production in Ghana: making a living from the forest in Western North
J Yaro, JK Teye, S Wiggins
2022 The Institute of Development Studies and Partner Organisations, 2022 Social Sciences 2
Long-Term Change And Agricultural Commercialisation In Ghanaian Cocoa|| APRA Working Paper 31
K Amanor, J Yaro, J Teye
2020 The Institute of Development Studies and Partner Organisations, 2020 Agriculture 2
Small Fish and Food Security: Towards innovative integration of small fish in African food systems to improve nutrition
J Kolding, R Overa, M Kjellevold, PAM van Zwieten, J Pucher, J Yaro, ...
2018 3rd World Small-Scale Fisheries Congress (WSSF): Transdisciplinarity and …, 2018 Agriculture 2
The Changing Role and Challenges of Women in Agriculture in the Era of Agricultural Transformation in Northern Ghana
G Afful‐Mensah, JA Yaro, I Wahab, MB Awen‐Naam
2025 Culture, Agriculture, Food and Environment 47 (2), e70007, 2025 Agriculture 1
Farming as a Financial Asset: Global Finance and the Making of Institutional Landscapes: Under All Sustainability Problems, the Land.
F Obeng-Odoom, M Frame, J Yaro, A Sturman, S Ouma
2024 Global South 17 (1), 2024 Social Sciences 1
Adaptation to Climate Change and Variability in Rural West Africa
J Hesselberg, JA Yaro
2016 Journal of economics and sustainable development, 2016 Natural Sciences 1
Boamah, Festus. 2015. Biofuels and Land Politics: Connecting the Disconnects in the Debate about Livelihood Impacts of Jatropha Biofuel Land Deals in Ghana
TA Benjaminsen, JA Yaro, A Fløysand
2016 Norsk Geografisk Tidsskrift-Norwegian Journal of Geography 70 (2), 125-126, 2016 Social Sciences 1
Introduction to Book
JA Yaro, J Hesselberg
2016 Adaptation to Climate Change and Variability in Rural West Africa, 1-6, 2016 Social Sciences 1
Outgrower Models and the Modernisation of Agriculture: The Case of Blue Skies Company Limited in the Akwapim South Municipality
AB Makafui, J Yaro, J Teye
2015 Agriculture 1
Expanding the Frontiers of African Development Studies
L Asuelime, S Francis, J Yaro
2014 Selected Themes in African Development Studies: Economic Growth, Governance …, 2014 Social Sciences 1
Compounding the peasant struggles: the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on Ghanaian farmers’ adaptation to climate change
AD Ablo, M Zaami, P Siakwah, RS Essien, JA Yaro
2025 The Journal of Modern African Studies 63 (2), 99-122, 2025 Natural Sciences 0
Reorienting Critical Geographies of Global Development: A Conversation with Han Cheng, Patricia Daley, Ruben Gonzalez-Vicente, Diana Vela-Almeida, and Joseph Awetori Yaro
M Pepa, G Mohan, H Cheng, P Daley, R Gonzalez-Vicente, ...
2025 ACME 24 (3), 345-362, 2025 Social Sciences 0
Rural-Urban Migration and Translocal Livelihoods in West Africa: Review of Literature
EA Agyeman, JK Teye, J Yaro
2025 African Human Mobility Review 11 (3), 13-31, 2025 Social Sciences 0
Editorial Introduction: Under All Sustainability Problems, the Land
F Obeng-Odoom, M Frame, J Yaro, A Sturman, S Ouma
2024 The Global South 17 (1), 99-105, 2024 Social Sciences 0
Farming as a Financial Asset: Global Finance and the Making of Institutional Landscapes: A Commentary
J Yaro
2024 The Global South 17 (1), 112-118, 2024 Social Sciences 0
APRA working paper 80: long-term change, commercialisation of cocoa farming, and agroecosystems and forest rehabilitation in Ghana.
K Amanor, J Yaro, J Teye
2022 Agriculture 0
Ghana’s Cocoa Farmers Need to Change Gear: What Policymakers Need to Know, and What They Might Do
K Amanor, J Yaro, J Teye, S Wiggins
2022 The Institute of Development Studies and Partner Organisations, 2022 Social Sciences 0
Prosperity in Rural Africa? Insights into Wealth, Assets, and Poverty from Longitudinal Studies in Tanzania, edited by Dan Brockington and Christine Noe
JA Yaro
2022 Utafiti 17 (1), 191-195, 2022 Social Sciences 0
APRA Brief 3: Rural Transitions, Economies and Rural–urban Links|| APRA Brief 3
S Wiggins, R Sabates-Wheeler, J Yaro
2018 The Institute of Development Studies and Partner Organisations, 2018 Social Sciences 0
RURAL TRANSITIONS
S Wiggins, R Sabates-Wheeler, J Yaro
2018 Social Sciences 0
Rural Transitions, Economies and Rural–Urban Links|| Working Paper 11
S Wiggins, R Sabates-Wheeler, J Yaro
2018 The Institute of Development Studies and Partner Organisations, 2018 Social Sciences 0
Small Fish and Food Security: Towards innovative integration of fish in African food systems to improve nutrition
J Kolding, R Overa, M Kjellevold, PAM van Zwieten, J Pucher, J Yaro, ...
2018 LEAP-Agri Project’s Kick-Off Meeting of ERA-Net LEAP-Agri Funded Projects, 2018 Agriculture 0
634743 JAS0010. 1177/0021909616634743Journal of Asian and African StudiesAwumbila et al. research-article2016 JAAS Article Journal of Asian and African Studies
M Awumbila, JK Teye, JA Yaro
2017 Social Networks 52 (7), 982-996, 2017 Social Sciences 0
International Journal of Climate Change Strategies and Management
AK Deb, CE Haque
2017 Management 9 (4), 446-468, 2017 Social Sciences 0