Irene S. Egyir

Profile

Agricultural Economist with 29 years’ experience, teaching and engaging in research and consultancies in resource use, gender and policy evaluation. She obtained a PhD in Agricultural Economics from the University of Ghana in 2003 and has since explored what other countries discuss on the subject. Irene has travelled widely to all the continents to attend conferences to deliver or listen to other colleagues. She has built a strong background in micro-finance practice having led a development NGO, Multi-Features and Capacity-enhancing Services (MFCS) to study finance access attitudes of small entrepreneurs for over a decade. She is currently the Lead Researcher of two projects that aim at understanding the productivity, profitability and sustainability of organic and conventional farming systems.  Prof. Egyir has 40 publications to her credit and has served as editor and reviewer for a number of journals. She had a chance to work as Technical Advisor on a USAID-supported Agriculture and Agribusiness Unit Capacity Building project at the Ministry of Finance from 2014-2017. She was a former Head, Department of Agricultural Economics and Agribusiness and sells brown rice as a past time. Her hobby is swimming and dancing to good music.

Research Interests

Major interest in sustainable agricultural resource management, markets analysis and in recent times using experimental design to investigate new product development, innovation and entrepreneurship. Has minor interest in microfinancing, gender studies and value chain analysis.

Research Publications

1. Zulu, L. C., Djenontin, I. N. S, Darkwah, A., Kamoto, J., Kampanje-Phiri, J., Fischer, G., Grabowski, P. & Egyir, I. S. (2020) Realizing Inclusive SAI: contextualizing indicators to better evaluate gender and intergenerational inequity in SAI processes and outcomes – cases from Southern and Western Africa. International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability, 1-27. https://doi.org/10.1080/14735903.2020.1737356

2. Anaman, Kwabena & Egyir, Irene (2019). Economic Shocks and the Growth of the Construction Industry in Ghana Over the 50-Year Period From 1968 to 2017. Research in World Economy, 10(1), 1-16.
3. Ogoudedji, S.A., Egyir, I. S. Osei-Asare, Y. & Seini, W. A. (2019). Assessing drivers of maize storage losses in south west Benin using a fractional response model Journal of Stored Products Research 83(2019):281-291.
4. Adabe, K. E.,  Abbey, A. G., Egyir, I.S., Kuwornu, J. K.M. & Anim-Somuah, H. (2019) Impact of contract farming on product quality upgrading: the case of rice in Togo. Journal of Agribusiness in Developing and Emerging Economies 9(4), 314-332
5. Kuwornu, J., Narh JNR, A., Egyir, I., Onumah, E., & Gebrezgabher, S. (2017). Willingness to pay for excreta pellet fertilizer: Empirical evidence from Ghana. Acta Agriculturae Slovenica, 109(2), 315–323.
6. James Kofi Aggrey Jnr, Irene S. Egyir, D. P. K. Amegashie, Comfort Freeman, Noah Adamtey, G. K. Ofosu-Budu, E. A. Ewusie, Seth K. Agyakwah, Mensah A. Akumah, Christopher T. Gaga, Peter Kwapong Feasibility of the utilization of “black soldier fly larvae” compost fortified with biochar for vegetable farming in Greater Accra, Ghana. Ghana Journal of Agricultural Economics And Agribusiness, 2(1), 142-160.
7. Wrigley-Asante, C., Owusu, K., Egyir, I. S.  &  Owiyo, T. M. (2017). Gender dimensions of climate change adaptation practices: The experiences of smallholder crop farmers in the transition zone of Ghana. Journal of African Geographical Review , 38(2),126-139.
8. Damba, O.T., Egyir, I & Adam, H. (2018). Drivers of Farmers’ Relationship Choice in Commodity Supply Chains: The Case of Soybean in Northern Ghana. International Journal of Irrigation and Agricultural Development 2(1), 152-16.
9. Asante-Addo, C.,  Mockshell, J., Zeller, M., Siddig, K. & Egyir, I. S. (2017). Agricultural credit provision: what really determines farmers’ participation and credit rationing? Agricultural Finance Review, 77 (2), 239-256                                                                            
10. Mensah-Bonsu, A., Sarpong, D.B., Al-Hassan, R. M., Asuming-Brempong, S. Egyir, I.S., Kuwornu, J.K.M., & Osei-Asare, Y.B. (2017). Intensity of and factors affecting land and water management practices among smallholder maize farmers in Ghana. African Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 12(2), 142-157

Professional Membership(s)

Ghana Association of Agricultural Economists
Africa Association of Agricultural Economists
Ghana Science Association