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Fred Mawunyo Dzanku

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR

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Verified email at ug.edu.gh Research Fellow, ISSER, University of Ghana, Legon ORCID 0000-0002-2271-7876 Google Scholar

CollegeCOLLEGE OF HUMANITIES
School / InstituteINST. OF STAT. SOC.& ECON. RES
DepartmentINSTITUTE OF STATISTICAL, SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC RESEARCH SECRETARIAT
Development EconomicsAgricultural EconomicsPovertyFood SecurityImpact Evaluations
Publications

78

Citations

1,478

H-index

20

i10-index

28

Publication activity
Publication statistics
Average citations
18.9
Most cited paper
203
First publication year
1900
Latest publication year
2026
Last updated
13 Sep 2026, 23:16
Publications

78 matching publications

PublicationYearJournalThematic areaCitations
Food security in rural sub-Saharan Africa: Exploring the nexus between gender, geography and off-farm employment
FM Dzanku
2019 World Development 113, 26-43, 2019 Social Sciences 203
Yield gap-based poverty gaps in rural Sub-Saharan Africa
FM Dzanku, M Jirström, H Marstorp
2015 World Development 67, 336-362, 2015 Social Sciences 160
Transient rural livelihoods and poverty in Ghana
FM Dzanku
2015 Journal of Rural Studies 40, 102-110, 2015 Social Sciences 138
A review of machine learning and satellite imagery for poverty prediction: Implications for development research and applications
O Hall, F Dompae, I Wahab, FM Dzanku
2023 Journal of International Development 35 (7), 1753-1768, 2023 Engineering 83
Agriculture, diversification, and gender in rural Africa: longitudinal perspectives from six countries
A Andersson Djurfeldt, A Cuthbert Isinika, F Mawunyo Dzanku
2018 Oxford University Press, 2018 Social Sciences 81
Land use and land cover change detection and prediction based on CA-Markov chain in the savannah ecological zone of Ghana
P Aniah, S Bawakyillenuo, SNA Codjoe, FM Dzanku
2023 Environmental Challenges 10, 100664, 2023 Natural Sciences 65
Information delivery channels and agricultural technology uptake: experimental evidence from Ghana
FM Dzanku, RD Osei, PK Nkegbe, I Osei-Akoto
2022 European Review of Agricultural Economics 49 (1), 82-120, 2022 Agriculture 56
The gender and geography of agricultural commercialisation: what implications for the food security of Ghana’s smallholder farmers?
FM Dzanku, D Tsikata, DA Ankrah
2021 The Journal of Peasant Studies 48 (7), 1507-1536, 2021 Social Sciences 56
Household welfare effects of agricultural productivity: A multidimensional perspective from Ghana
FM Dzanku
2015 The Journal of Development Studies 51 (9), 1139-1154, 2015 Agriculture 53
The importance and determinants of purchases in rural food consumption in Africa: Implications for food security strategies
FM Dzanku, LSO Liverpool-Tasie, T Reardon
2024 Global Food Security 40, 100739, 2024 Agriculture 52
Gender and rural livelihoods: Agricultural commercialization and farm/non-farm diversification
AA Djurfeldt, F Mawunyo Dzanku, A Cuthbert Isinika
2018 Agriculture, diversification, and gender in rural Africa: Longitudinal …, 2018 Agriculture 42
The impact of mobile phone voice message reminders on agricultural outcomes in Mali
FM Dzanku, R Osei, I Osei‐Akoto
2021 Agricultural Economics 52 (5), 789-806, 2021 Agriculture 41
Agricultural diversification, food self-sufficiency and food security in Ghana-the role of infrastructure and institutions.
FM Dzanku, D Sarpong
2011 African smallholders. Food crops, markets and policy, 189-213, 2011 Agriculture 41
Agricultural sector development: Policies and options
FM Dzanku, P Aidam
2013 Policies and options for Ghana's economic development 3, 100-138, 2013 Agriculture 29
Long‐term determinants of deforestation in Ghana: the role of structural adjustment policies
SNA Codjoe, FM Dzanku
2009 African Development Review 21 (3), 558-588, 2009 Social Sciences 29
The geography of agriculture participation and food security in a small and a medium-sized city in Ghana
HM Ayerakwa, FM Dzanku, DB Sarpong
2020 Agricultural and Food Economics 8 (1), 10, 2020 Agriculture 26
Implications of socioeconomic change for agrarian land and labour relations in rural Ghana
FM Dzanku, D Tsikata
2022 Journal of Rural Studies 94, 385-398, 2022 Social Sciences 25
Determinants of farmland tenure security in Ghana
M Ayamga, RWN Yeboah, FM Dzanku
2015 Ghana Journal of Science, Technology and Development 2 (1), 1-21, 2015 Social Sciences 24
Rational but poor? An explanation for rural economic livelihood strategy
FM Dzanku
2018 Journal of Agricultural Economics 69 (2), 365-381, 2018 Social Sciences 23
The Land Rights and Farm Investment Ghana: The Missing Link in the Operationalisation of Tenure Security
M Ayamga, FM Dzanku
2013 AAAE Fourth International Conference, 2013 Agriculture 21
Adoption of GM crops in Ghana: Ex ante estimations for insect-resistant cowpea and nitrogen-use efficient rice
FM DZANKU, P ZAMBRANO, U WOOD-SICHRA, JB FALCK-ZEPEDA, ...
2018 http://ebrary.ifpri.org/utils/getfile/collection/p15738coll2/id/133007 …, 2018 Agriculture 20
Opportunities for orphan crops: expected economic benefits from biotechnology
P Zambrano, U Wood-Sichra, RD Ruhinduka, D Phillip, A Nin Pratt, ...
2022 Frontiers in Plant Science 13, 825930, 2022 Social Sciences 19
Flickering decades of agriculture and agricultural policy
FM Dzanku, C Udry
2017 The Economy of Ghana Sixty Years After Independence, 157-175, 2017 Agriculture 17
Heterogeneous market participation channels and household welfare
FM Dzanku, KT Asante, LS Hodey
2024 Oxford Development Studies 52 (1), 74-93, 2024 Social Sciences 15
Does combining traditional and information and communications technology–based extension methods improve agricultural outcomes? Evidence from field experiments in Mali
FM Dzanku, RD Osei
2023 Review of Development Economics 27 (1), 450-475, 2023 Agriculture 15