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Joseph Teye

PROFESSOR

Verified email at ug.edu.gh Associate Professor Google Scholar

CollegeCOLLEGE OF HUMANITIES
School / InstituteSCHOOL OF SOCIAL SCIENCES
DepartmentDEPARTMENT OF GEOGRAPHY AND RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT
Migration StudiesForest ManagementClimate Change
Publications

154

Citations

3,136

H-index

31

i10-index

70

Publication activity
Publication statistics
Average citations
20.4
Most cited paper
278
First publication year
1900
Latest publication year
2026
Last updated
14 Sep 2026, 08:53
Publications

154 matching publications

PublicationYearJournalThematic areaCitations
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 and development in Africa: Trends, challenges, and policy implications
RKO Kyei, DM Kadje, L Kandilige, TK Abutima, PB Obour, OM Osiki, ...
2017 Bloomsbury Publishing USA, 2017 Social Sciences 18
National and international migration policy in Ghana
L Kandilige, J Teye, C Talleraas, A Gopsill
2023 EFFEXT Background paper, CMI, 2023 Social Sciences 17
Forest dependence among rural households in southern Ghana: Implications for conservation and poverty reduction
PPK Mantey, JK Teye
2021 Ghana Journal of Geography 13 (1), 1-24, 2021 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
Diaspora and migration policy and institutional frameworks Ghana country report
M Awumbila, JK Teye
2014 Social Sciences 16
Working conditions in Ghana's export processing zone and women's empowerment
FA Obeng, C Wrigley-Asante, JK Teye
2015 Work Organisation, Labour and Globalisation 9 (2), 64-78, 2015 Social Sciences 15
Good for parents but bad for wives: Migration as a contested model of success in contemporary Ghana
AK Darkwah, D Thorsen, DA Boateng, JK Teye
2019 Migrating out of Poverty Working Papers 61, 1-33, 2019 Social Sciences 14
Environmental change and migration in Africa
JK Teye, JK Anarfi, J Kwasi, A Sulemana, A Anamzoya, G Adiku
2018 Migration in a globalizing world: Perspectives from Ghana, 97-115, 2018 Social Sciences 14
Long-term change and agricultural commercialisation in Ghanaian cocoa
KS Amanor, JA Yaro, JK Teye
2020 APRA Working Paper 31, 2020 Agriculture 13
Connection men, pushers and migrant trajectories: Examining the dynamics of the migration industry in Ghana and along routes into Europe and the Gulf States
M Awumbila, JK Teye, L Kandilige, E Nikoi, P Deshingkar
2019 Migrating out of Poverty Research Programme Consortium Working Paper 65, 2019 Social Sciences 13
The impact of migration on the welfare of households left behind in rural Ghana: A quasi-experimental impact evaluation
JK Teye, L Boakye-Yiadom, E Asiedu, J Litchfield, A Kubi, J Wilson, ...
2019 Sch Glob Stud Univ Sussex Work Pap 62, 1-26, 2019 Social Sciences 13
The Janus-face of contemporary migration: Perspectives on West African return migration and transnationalism with a focus on Ghana and Senegal
J Mensah, JK Teye, MB Setrana
2022 Migration in West Africa 237, 2022 Social 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
Agribusiness investment in agricultural commercialisation: Rethinking policy incentives in Africa
S Ayele, J Thorpe, G Ayele, H Chingaipe, JK Teye, P O’Flynn
2020 APRA Working Paper, Brighton: Agricultural Policy Research in Africa Consortium, 2020 Agriculture 11
Of local places and local people: Understanding migration in peripheral capitalist outposts
AK Darkwah, M Awumbila, JK Teye
2016 Migrating Out of Poverty Research Programme Consortium Working Paper, 2016 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
‘These days, things have changed’: historicizing current dynamics of climate-related migration in the savannah zone of Ghana
FX Jarawura, JK Teye, N Kleist, LS Lindegaard, DA Quaye
2024 Climate and Development, 1-11, 2024 Social Sciences 10
A geographic theorization of Zongos in urban Ghana: A complex systems approach
J Mensah, JK Teye
2021 Ghana Journal of Geography 13 (2), 2021 Social Sciences 10
Deforestation in Ghana
JK Teye
2005 Human landscape ecology, 9-21, 2005 Social Sciences 10
Climate mobility: Scoping study of two localities in Ghana
JK Teye, F Jarawura, LS Lindegaard, N Kleist, M Ladekjær Gravesen, ...
2021 DIIS Working Paper, 2021 Social Sciences 9
Economic value of children and fertility preferences in a fishing community in Ghana
JK Teye
2013 GeoJournal 78 (4), 697-708, 2013 Social Sciences 9
Policy networks and forest resource management in Ghana
JK Teye
2010 Ghana Journal of Geography 2, 2010 Social Sciences 9
Changing land and labour relations on cocoa farms in Sefwi, Ghana: Continuity and change
JA Yaro, JK Teye, S Wiggins
2024 World Development Perspectives 34, 100584, 2024 Agriculture 8
Assessing existing water demand and supply patterns and reuse options as additional sources of water in the Greater Accra Metropolitan Area (GAMA)
FM Abbey, J Songsore, J Teye
2013 Social Sciences 8