
Eric Kofi DoeUniversity of Ghana | Legon · Department of Geography and Resource Development
Eric Kofi Doe
Bachelor of Science
Ecological Geography and Resource Development. BANGA-Africa & Queen Elizabeth Scholarship (QES-AS)
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Geospatial analysis of agricultural and natural resources with applied remote sensing, GIS, geospatial statistics, spatial econometrics, and geo-visualization: focusing on sustainable agricultural systems (climate-plant-soil-human interactions), precision management of farm soil fertility, soil productivity, soil health and security, soil governance, nature-based solutions to deforestation, land degradation, soil crises, climate change and agroecosystems
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Geospatial distribution of soil organic carbon (SOC) and soil pH is an important component of soil fertility management in sustainable cocoa (Theobroma cacao L.) production. Spatial precision of cocoa soil fertility management in Ghana is rare due to paucity of spatially precise knowledge of farm soil properties. This study sought to provide spatia...
Kakum Conservation Area is roughly 1187km2, extending over large portions of forest reserves in the Assin South District of Ghana. The district hosts the remaining biodiversity hotspots within highly fragmented rainforest of West Africa. Although the conservation has been gazetted as protected area, it has since been impacted by illegal chainsaw lo...
Concerns for biodiversity conservation have heightened since Rio de Janeiro 1992 meeting of the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development and the subsequent Convention on Biodiversity. However, the rate of investment in agroforestry systems for agro-biodiversity conservation has been slower than expected. The Kakum Conservation Area...
In contrast to top-down conservation strategies, co-management is widely promoted as a bottom-up, participatory, and sustainable management strategy of natural resources. However, assessing the extent of community participation in wildlife co-management by integrating Arnstein’s ladder of citizen participation and practical techniques recommended b...
Open-surfaced water sources have been used to irrigate vegetable farms in cities. Open-surface water often contains unmonitored concentrations of health-threatening contaminants that pose health risks, especially when used to produce vegetables for human consumption. However, information on levels of heavy metals and feacal coliforms in such vegeta...
Urban built-up environment Land cover change Vegetation cover Urban heat island Urbanization GAMA A B S T R A C T The unsustainable expansion of cities is generating urban heat islands (UHIs) by exchanging (trading) vegetation cover (green) for built impervious surfaces which is associated with heat-related health risks, globally. This phenomenon i...
Introduction: Soil health is critical for the efficient management of soil fertility and crop yield in “green” cocoa (GC) (Theobroma cacao L.) agroforestry systems. However, knowledge about agroecosystem factors that affect healthy soil productivity in “green” cocoa agroforestry systems is patchy in West Africa. Based on organic cocoa (OC) and conv...
Tropical forests are important sources of securing basic human needs (livelihoods) for both the deprived and well-endowed but are also critical for reducing metric tonnes of carbon (tC) emitted from deforestation and land degradation. However, inequalities of human population and land-use land-cover change (LULCC) are existential threats to sustain...
Improving agricultural soil conditions is essential for attaining global soil security against land degradation. This requires the use of complex geospatial farm soil information, the absence of which hinders sustainable cocoa (Theobroma cacao L.) soil management in West Africa. This study seeks to create geospatial visibility (awareness) on the co...
The study assessed the value and supply chain of kola nuts in Ghana through key informant interviews (KIIs) and focus group discussions (FGDs) in eighteen communities. Key actors, flow of products and product information, and relationships among actors were assessed using content analysis. Results suggest that the nuts are picked or harvested from...
This paper defines and estimates the proportion of organic and inorganic crop-land husbandry practices in the composite of Integrated Soil Fertility Management (ISFM) by cocoa farmers in Ghana using their socioeconomic and ecological attributes. A binary logistic regression was used to determine how these factors predict the proportion of organic m...
The use of kola nut, including natural or alternative medicinal sources, has inevitably created an increased global market demand in excess of its production and provides great prospects for the growth of the kola nut industry in producing countries like Ghana. Nonetheless, there is a great dearth of information on Ghana’s kola nut supply-side prac...