Prof. Akwasi Mensah-Bonsu

Prof. Akwasi Mensah-Bonsu

Contact info amensah-bonsu@ug.edu.gh

About

Profile

Akwasi Mensah-Bonsu is an Associate Professor in the Department of Agricultural Economics and Agribusiness, University of Ghana, Legon. He holds a PhD in Development Economics from Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, awarded in 2003. His areas of research include development economics and policy analysis for agriculture, modelling of the agricultural sector resources use and production efficiency analysis, benefit cost analysis, project managing (including monitoring and evaluation). He has undertaken a number of research as well as other extension works for both local and international agencies, including Ghana’s Ministry of Food and Agriculture, FAO, DANIDA, UNDP, NEPAD and icipe.

Education

BSc MPhil (Agric. Econ) (Ghana) PhD (VU-Amsterdam)

Research Interest

Areas of research interest include development economics and policy analysis, modelling of the agricultural sector resources (farm inputs) use and production (food crops, cash crops and livestock, particularly poultry) efficiency, benefit cost analysis, project management (including monitoring and evaluation), and environmental issues. Current Research Focus: Value chain study; agricultural investment study; farm production analysis.

Research/project(s)
• Lead Researcher:  Socio-Economic Study of Biochar and Compost Use by Farmers. Research Study under USAID/UG Institutional Capacity Building for Agriculture Productivity Project.  2020-2021
• Co-Researcher: Institutional framework to enhance the agri-innovation ecosystem within the University of Ghana (IFEA-Eco). 2020-2022, PASET RSIF, icipe, Nairobi Kenya.
• Co-Researcher: Building Resilient Agribusiness Practitioners through Design Thinking Approach (BRADeTA), 2020-2023, PASET RSIF, icipe, Nairobi Kenya
• Project Management Team Member: Feed the future project UG/USAID Agriculture institutional capacity building to improve agricultural productivity and food security 2015-2021, United States Agency for International Development.
• Technical Partner: Creating Competitive Livestock Entrepreneurs in Agribusiness - Agri-Business Incubator (CCLEAr ABI), A Universities, Business and Research in Agricultural Innovation (UniBRAIN) Agribusiness Incubation Consortium, funded by (DANIDA). 2012 to date. Part of the Research Scientists that put the wining CCLEAr proposal together.

Publications

Journal Articles

  1. Gbordzoe, E., Onumah, E., & Mensah-Bonsu, A. (2024). Analysis of the Emerging Market for Poultry By-Products in Ghana. Caraka Tani: Journal of Sustainable Agriculture, 39(1), 194-207. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.20961/carakatani.v39i1.82925
  2. Kolog, J. D., Asem, F. E., & Mensah-Bonsu, A. (2023). The state of food security and its determinants in Ghana: an ordered probit analysis of the household hunger scale and household food insecurity access scale. Scientific African, 19, e01579.
  3. Selorm, A., Sarpong, D. B. S., Egyir, I. S., Mensah Bonsu, A., & An, H. (2023). Does contract farming affect technical efficiency? Evidence from soybean farmers in Northern Ghana. Agricultural and Food Economics, 11(1), 1-22. 
  4. Amegnaglo, C. J., Mensah-Bonsu, A., & Anaman, K. A. (2022). Use and economic benefits of indigenous seasonal climate forecasts: evidence from Benin, West Africa. Climate and Development, DOI: 10.1080/17565529.2022.2027740.
  5. Ninson, J., Egyir, I. S., Mensah-Bonsu, A., & Onumah, E. E. (2022). Financial Analysis of the Use of Land: Agriculture or Woodlot. Land, 11(5), 642. 
  6. Tsiboe, F., Asravor, J., Owusu, V., and Mensah-Bonsu, A. (2022). Production technology, efficiency, and productivity of cereal farms: Prospects for enhancing farm performance in Ghana. Agricultural and Resource Economics Review, 51(3), 579-609. doi:10.1017/age.2022.16
  7. Kodua, T. T., Onumah, E. E. & Mensah-Bonsu, A. (2022). Technical efficiency of improved and local variety seed maize farms in Ghana: A meta-frontier analysis. Cogent Economics & Finance, 10:1, 2022858, DOI: 10.1080/23322039.2021.2022858.
  8. Onumah, E. E., Addey Owusu, P., Mensah-Bonsu, A., & Acquah Degraft, H. (2022). Rice price volatility and transmission: implications for food security in Ghana. Cogent Economics & Finance, 10(1), 2085605.
  9. Atta Oppong, B., Onumah, E. E., Al-Hassan, R. M., & Mensah-Bonsu, A. (2021). Impact of Crop Productivity on Poverty among Farm Households in Ghana.  Acta Economica, 19(35), 77–94.
  10. Boimah, M., Mensah-Bonsu, A., Osei-Asare, Y. and Sarpong, D. B. (2020). Measuring sustainability of conservation and conventional practices in maize production in Ghana, Journal of Agriculture and Environment for International Development, 114(2), 21 – 40.
  11. Zanmassou, Y. C., Al-Hassan, R. M., Mensah-Bonsu, A., Osei-Asare, Y. B., & Igue, C. B. (2020). Assessment of smallholder farmers’ adaptive capacity to climate change: Use of a mixed weighting scheme. Journal of Environmental Management, 276, 1-8.
  12. Mensah-Bonsu, A., Kpabitey, S., & Kuwornu, J. K. M. (2020). Perceived Governance Structure and Constraints in the Pig Supply Chain in Ghana. Science & Development, 4 (1), pp. 1 - 11.
  13. Affedzie-Obresi, S., Adu-Aboagye, G., Nkegbe, E. K. Asuming Bediako, N., Ansah, K. O., Mensah-Bonsu, A., Sarpong, D.B., Amegashie, D.P.K., Kwadzo, G.T-M., Wallace, P.A. & Clottey, V. A. (2020). Black Soldier Fly (Hermitia illucens) Larvae Meal as Alternative Protein in Broiler Production in Ghana. Ghana Jnl Agric. Sci. 55 (1), 1 – 13.
  14. Ameleke, G. Y., Haagsma, R., Karbo, N., & Mensah-Bonsu, A. (2020). The nature and drivers of contracts in cattle herding and management: The case of Ghana. Pastoralism, 10, 13. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13570-020-00172-3.
  15. Mensah-Bonsu, A., Lartey, N. N., & Kuwornu, J. K. M. (2019). Gender-segregated analysis of the poultry value chain in Ghana, Gender. Technology and Development, 23:2, 130-164.
  16. Mensah-Bonsu, A., Owusu, C., Amegashie, D. P. K., & Kuwornu, J.K.M. (2019). Determinants of marketing channel choice among smallholder beef cattle farmers in Ghana’s forest-savannah transitional zone. Int. J. Value Chain Management, 10, No. 3, pp.238–257.
  17. Osei-Asare, Y. B., Ansah, M. O., Mensah-Bonsu, A., & Kuwornu, J. K. M. (2018). Effect of gold mining on total factor productivity of farmers: Evidence from Ghana. Acta Agriculturae Slovenica, 111(2), 327 – 340.
  18. Tinta, A. A., Sarpong, D. B., Ouedraogo, I. M., Al-Hassan, R., Mensah-Bonsu, A., & Onumah, E. E (2018). The effect of integration, global value chains and international trade on economic growth and food security in ECOWAS. Cogent Food & Agriculture, 4(1), 1465327.
  19. Amegnaglo, C.J., Anaman, K. A., Mensah-Bonsu, A., Onumah, E. E. and Gero, F. A. (2017). Contingent valuation study of the benefits of seasonal climate forecasts for maize farmers in the Republic of Benin, West Africa. Climate Services, 6: 1 – 11.
  20. Mensah-Bonsu, A., Sarpong, D. B.; Al-Hassan, R.; Asuming-Brempong, S.; Egyir, I. S.; Kuwornu, J. K. M.; and Osei-Asare, Y. B. (2017). Intensity of and Factors Affecting Land and Water Management Practices among Maize Farmers in Ghana. African Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 12 (2) 142 - 157.
  21. Baah, P. A., Mensah-Bonsu, A., & Jatoe, J. B. D. (2016). Compliance with GLOBALGAP Standards among Smallholder Pineapple Farmers in Akuapim – South, Ghana. Journal of Agribusiness in Developing and Emerging Economies, 6(1): 21 – 38.
  22. Birol, E., Asare-Marfo, D., Ayele, G., Mensah-Bonsu, A., Ndirangu, L., Okpukpara, B., Roy, D. and Yakhshilikov, Y. (2013). The Impact of Avian Flu on Livelihoods Outcomes in Africa: Evidence from Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya and Nigeria. African Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 8(4) 275 - 288.
  23. Mensah-Bonsu, A., & Tsiboe, F. (2012), Analysis of the Constraints and their Effects on the Marketing of Cassava by Farmers in the Ajumaku-Enyan-Essiam District of Ghana. Ghana Journal of Agricultural Science, 45: 95 - 108.
  24. Mensah-Bonsu, A., Sarpong, D. B., & Asuming-Brempong, S. (2012). Analysis of Root and Tuber Crops Supply in Ghana: Simplified Nerlovian Supply Response Model, Ghana Journal of Agricultural Science, 45: 79 – 94.
  25. Fousseni Barres, N., Mensah-Bonsu, A., & Sarpong, D. B. (2012). Avian Influenza Shock and Performance of the Chicken Markets in Benin. World's Poultry Science Journal, 68(3), 529 - 542.

Book

  1. Manu, I., Osei-Asare, Y. B. and Mensah-Bonsu, A. (2019). The Cassava Value Chains and Economic Implications on Actors in Ghana. Lambert Academic Publishing.

Book Chapter

  1. Manu, I., Mensah-Bonsu, A., Anim-Somuah, H. and Osei-Asare, Y. B. (2019). Trust, Governance, Upgrading and Market Power in the Cassava Value Chain of Southern Ghana. In Aidoo, R., Agbenorhevi, J. K., Wireko-Manu, F. D. and Wangel, A. (ed.). Roots and Tubers in Ghana: Overview and Selected Research Papers. Pg 45 – 79.
  2. Kemeze L.S., Mensah-Bonsu A., Egyir I.S., Amegashie D.P.K., Nlom J.H. (2018) Impact of Bioenergy Crop Adoption on Total Crop Incomes of Farmers in Northern Ghana: The Case of Jatropha Curcas. In: Shimeles A., Verdier-Chouchane A., Boly A. (eds) Building a Resilient and Sustainable Agriculture in Sub-Saharan Africa. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. Print ISBN   978-3-319-76221-0; Online ISBN 978-3-319-76222-7.
  3. Tuffour, M., Mensah-Bonsu, A. & Osei-Asare, Y. B. (2014). Risk analysis of Broiler Production in the Greater Accra Region of Ghana. In Al-Hassan, W. Seini, Irene S. Egyir and John K. M. Kuwornu (eds), “Developments in Agricultural Economics and Contemporary Issues in Ghana”, pp. 65 – 81, University of Ghana Readers, University of Ghana, ISBN: 978-9988-1-9900-5.
  4. Mensah-Bonsu, A. and Burger, K. (2008), A Bargaining Model of Migration: Getting the Permission of the Farm Household. In Rob B. Dellink and A. Ruijs (eds), “Economics of Poverty, Environment and Natural Resource Use”, pp. 185 - 208, Springer, Dordrecht, The Netherlands. ISBN 978-1-4020-8303-7(PB); ISBN 978-1-4020-8302-0(HB)