DR. ABDALLAH ABDUL-HANANSENIOR LECTURERDEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURAL AND FOOD ECONOMICSFACULTY OF AGRICULTURE, FOOD AND CONSUMER SCIENCESNYANKPALA Campus
Background
Dr. Abdul-Hanan Abdallah is a Senior Lecturer with a PhD in Agricultural Economics in the Department of Agricultural and Food Economics, University for Development Studies, Ghana. Dr. Abdallah is currently the Department’s examinations officer. He has over 10 years of cutting-edge research and consulting experience with Civil Society and expertise in macro and micro-econometric modeling, climate change and modeling, GIS and Remote Sensing, and data analysis with Stata, R, ArcGIS, and QGIS. He has worked with the Ghana Statistical Service, ActionAid, USAID/IFDC, and SADA-MVP. He has also won research grants from the International Food Policy Research Institute, International Foundation for Science, Global Development Network (GDN), and International Centre for Evaluation and Development (ICED) and was adjudged the overall best researcher by GDN. Dr. Abdallah is also a J-Pal African Scholar and has been trained in randomized control trials through the Development Methodologies Summer School that was organized at the Institute of Statistics and Applied Economics (ENSEA), Abidjan. Dr. Abdallah’s research interest focuses on livelihood impact evaluations of social interventions including large-scale farm investment, improved agricultural technologies, agricultural markets and institutions, value chains and human rights-based approaches (HRBA) to development planning and management, agricultural credit, and finance, and educational programs. Several publications are to his credit in some of the areas mentioned. He has expertise in monitoring and evaluation, land tenure issues, large-scale farm investment, improved agricultural technologies, poverty and impact assessment, agricultural markets and institutions, value chains and human rights-based approaches (HRBA) to development planning and management, agricultural credit, and finance.
Abdallah, A-H. (2025a). Effects of infrastructure on the adoption of sustainable agricultural practices in sub-Saharan Africa. Circular Agricultural Systems, 5. https://doi.org/10.48130/cas-0025-0002
Abdallah, A-H. (2025b). Farm income and food security under ex situ rainwater harvesting in Northern Ghana. Journal of Agribusiness in Developing and Emerging Economies. https://doi.org/10.1108/JADEE-05-2024-0169
Abdallah, A-H. (2024). Unpacking the complex relationships between agricultural investments and biodiversity in Ghana. Societal Impacts, 4(August), 100092. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socimp.2024.100092
Abdallah, A-H., Ayamga, M., & Awuni, J. A. (2024). Effect of large-scale land acquisition by domestic and international entities on farm investment in northern Ghana. HELIYON, e28202. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2024.e28202
Abdallah, A-H., Ayamga, M., & Awuni, J.A. (2023). Large-scale land acquisition and household farm investment in northern Ghana. Land, 12(4), 737. https://doi.org/ 10.3390/land12040737
Ayamga, M., Abdallah, A-H., & Awuni, J.A. (2022). Large-scale land acquisition and farmland access nexus: Evidence from agricultural households in northern Ghana. GeoJournal. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10708-022-10813-2
Abdallah, A-H., Ayamga, M., & Awuni, J.A. (2022). Impact of land grabbing on food security: evidence from Ghana. Environment, Development and Sustainability, 0123456789. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10668-022-02294-7
Abdallah, A-H., Abdul-Rahaman, A., & Issahaku, G. (2021). Sustainable agricultural practices, farm income and food security among rural households in Africa. Environment, Development and Sustainability, 23(12), 17668–17701.
Abdallah, A-H., Abdul-Rahaman, A., & Issahaku, G. (2020). Production and hidden hunger impacts of sustainable agricultural practices: evidence from rural households in Africa. Agrekon, 59(4), 440–458
Abdallah, A-H., A., Ayamga, M., & Awuni, J.A. (2019). Impact of agricultural credit on farm income under the Savanna and Transitional zones of Ghana income. Agricultural Finance Review, 79(1), 60–84.
Abdallah, A-H., Ayamga, M., Awuni, J.A., & Donkoh, S.A. (2018). The reality of market inefficiencies and technology adoption nexus: evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa. Int. J. Agricultural Resources, Governance and Ecology, 14(3), 287–307.
Abdallah, A-H., & Anang, B. (2018). Factors Influencing Participation of Cocoa Farmers in the Government Spraying Programme in Ghana. Asian Journal of Agricultural Extension, Economics & Sociology, 22(2), 1–9. https://doi.org/10.9734/AJAEES/2018/38842
Abdallah, A-H., Hananu, B., & Abdul-Rasheed, H. (2018). Beyond household characteristics : what influence adoption of banking innovations in Northern Ghana? Int. J. Electronic Banking, 1(2), 1–19.
Abdallah, A-H. (2017). Determinants of adoption of soil and water and conservation techniques: evidence from Northern Ghana, International Journal of Sustainable Agriculture and Informatics, 3(1), 31–43.
Abdallah, A-H., & Abdul-Rahaman, A. (2016a). Determinants of Access to Agricultural Extension Services: Evidence from Smallholder Rural Women in Northern Ghana. Asian Journal of Agricultural Extension, Economics & Sociology, 9(3), 1–8. https://doi.org/10.9734/AJAEES/2016/23478
Abdul-Rahaman, A., & Abdallah, A-H. (2016b). Empirical Investigation of Technical Efficiency of Smallholder Women Farmers in Northern Ghana: Stochastic Frontier Approach. British Journal of Economics, Management & Trade, 13(1), 1–16. https://doi.org/10.9734/BJEMT/2016/24727
Abdallah, A-H. (2016c). Agricultural credit and technical efficiency in Ghana: is there a nexus? Agricultural Finance Review, 76(2). https://doi.org/10.1108/AFR-01-2016-0002
Abdallah, A-H. (2016d). Does credit market inefficiency affect technology adoption? Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa. Agricultural Finance Review, 76(4). https://doi.org/10.1108/AFR-05-2016-0052
Hananu, B., Abdallah, A-H., & Zakaria, H. (2015). Factors influencing agricultural credit demand in Northern Ghana. African Journal of Agricultural Research, 9(7), 645–652. https://doi.org/10.5897/AJAR2014
Ibrahim, M., Musah, A., & Abdallah, A-H. (2015). Beyond Enforcement: What Drives Tax Morale in Ghana? Humanomics, 31(4), 399–414. https://doi.org/10.1108/H-04-2015-0023
