Dr. Beatrice Darko Obiri is a Chief Research Scientist (Socio-economics) and the Head of the Forest Economics and Marketing Division, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research-Forestry Research Institute of Ghana (CSIR-FORIG).

She is also a Senior Lecturer in Natural Resource Economics & Bio-Product Marketing at the CSIR-College of Science and Technology, affiliated to the University of Cape Coast. She holds a PhD. in Agricultural Ecology (Economics) from Bangor University, Wales, UK. MSc. Agroforestry from University of Aberdeen, UK, and BSc. (Hons.) Agriculture (Economics & Farm Management) from KNUST, Ghana. She is a former Commonwealth Professional Fellow of the Commonwealth Scholarship Commission, UK and a European Mundus Sutrofor Scholar.

She has received several other awards including Overseas Development Assistance Shared Scholarship (ODASS) and DFID, NRSP funding for her MSc. and PhD studies in the UK as well as the University of Missouri Incentive Fellowship and DSE Germany fellowship for professional development in the USA and Netherlands respectively.

Dr. Obiri has been the team lead and/or member in the execution of over 50 local and international funded multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary research and development projects and consultancies in agriculture, forestry/natural resource management, environment and related fields. She has worked as a consultant for several international and local organizations including INBAR China & West Africa/, COWI/FOREST TRENDS Denmark, International Tropical Timber Organization (ITTO) Japan, International Food, and Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) USA, USAID, DFID, SNV-Netherlands, FAO, UNIDO, UNESCO, UNDP, IUCN, African Forest Forum (AFF), World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF-CIFOR), Tropenbos International and Ghana, Ghana Forestry Commission, FoRM Ghana Company Limited among others.

Her strength lies in her experience in conducting both qualitative and quantitative research across the human dimensions and biophysical aspects of these disciplines to guide economic and policy decision making. Her specific research experiences cover conducting baseline & feasibility studies; economics of production systems particularly forest and agro-based enterprises financial/cost-benefit analysis, farm forestry and crop budgeting. Others include multi-stakeholder engagement approaches, forest dependency and livelihoods analyses; forest and agricultural commodity supply and value chain analyses, marketing and trade; agro-ecological knowledge analysis, bio-energy and climate change assessment; landscape restoration, project monitoring and evaluation as well as farming systems research especially participatory technology development, adoption and impact assessment. Her recent research focused on the economics of modified taungya, shea plantations, sylvopastoral intensification, woodfuel and woody fruit tree production in the Savannah and Transition landscapes of Ghana; Stakeholder engagement for community-based resources management; Enhancing tree-based food and energy systems in coastal mangrove-based livelihood systems; Native germplasm and bamboo value chain analyses, Trade and marketing of non-timber forest products (NTFPs) among others. Dr. Obiri has over 150 publications including 29 journal papers. She has attended and made presentations in over 50 local & international workshops and conferences.

Dr Obiri is a reviewer of international and local journals. She is an external thesis assessor for Graduate Schools of Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), University of Energy and Natural Resources (UENR), University of Life Sciences, Norway and Makerere University Business School, Uganda. She also supervises graduate (Masters & PhD) students’ theses from both local and international universities. She is a member of various committees within and outside the CSIR and affiliated to the Research Staff Association of CSIR, Ghana Association of Agricultural Economists (GAAE) among others

1. Damnyag, L., Obiri, D. B., Bampoh, A.A., Foli, E.G., Ofori, D.A., Tegegne, Y.T., Obeng, E.A., Asante-Fosu, D., Andoh, J., Anglaaere, L. and Oduro, K.A. 2025. Identifying desirable tree attributes for selection of companion trees in cocoa agroforestry systems in South-Western Ghana. Accepted, Silva Fennica. [EMID: dc98bf361f0258f3]

2. Muthee, K., Carsan, S., Bah, A. McMullin, S., Obiri, D.B., Kent, K. & Minang, P. 2025. Mangrove ecosystems mapping in parts of Ghana and The Gambia for sustainable regeneration and utilization. Anthropocene Coasts (2025). 8:9

3. Damnyag, L., Bampoh, A.A., Tegegne, Y.T., Obiri, D. B. and Oduro, K.A. 2024. Assessment of revenue loss from illegal logging in Ghana’s informal timber sector. International Forestry Review Vol.26(1), 2024

4. Oduro, K.A. Obeng, E.A., Guuroh, R.T., Asante-Fosu, D., Mensah, E.S., Andoh, J., Abukari, H., Obiri, D. B. & Louman, B. (2024). Local communities’ adaptation strategies for reducing vulnerabilities to climate change in cocoa-forest dominated landscapes in Ghana. GeoJournal, 89(2), 61.

5. Andoh, J., Stella Britwum Acquah, S.B., Oduro, K. A., Obiri, D. B., Obeng, E. A., Guuroh, R. T., Opuni-Frimpong, E., Akpalu, S. E., Crentsil, K. A., Kojo Kyenkyenhene, K.K. & Ofori, D. A. 2024. Drivers of deforestation and forest degradation and local capital assets in community resource management areas: implications for REDD+. Environ Dev Sustain (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10668-024-05415-6

6. Obeng, E.A., Andoh, J., Oduro, K.A., Obiri, D. B., Duah-Gyamfi, A. Guuroh, R.T Adu-Gyamfi A., Aloysius, N. and Clark, K. 2023. Impacts of Illegal Small-Scale Artisanal Gold Mining and Land Clearing Activities on Cocoa Cultivation: Farmers’ Perception on the Multiple Threats Facing the Cocoa Industry, and Rural Livelihoods. Research Report. CSIR-FORIG, Kumasi, Ghana. USDA-FAS-10961-0700-10.-20-0001

7. Yeboah, E., Dugan, E., Nartey, E., Innocent, Y.D., Frimpong, K.A., Obiri D, B., Egyir, I.., Akom, M.., Osei-Adu, J.., Otabil, P.K, Ason, B., Allotey, D.F.K, Moses, M., Sundberg,C., Adiku, S.G.K. 2022. Biochar Systems in Ghana. Agricultural and Food Science Journal of Ghana. Vol. 15. 1553- 1577

8. Obiri, D. B., Abukari, H., Oduro K. A., Quartey R. K., Dawoe E. L. K., Twintoh J. J. and Opuni-Frimpong, E. 2022. Rosewood (Pterocarpus erinaceus) as a de facto forest common for local communities in Ghana. International Journal of Biodiversity and Conservation. Vol. 14(1), pp. 1-13.

9. Duguma, L., Darko Obiri, B, Carsan, S., Muthee, K., Tang Guuroh, R., Antwi Oduro, K., Mcmullin, S., Duba, D. (2022). Participatory Land-Seascape Visioning in Densu Estuary, Narkwa Lagoon, and Whin Estuary, Ghana. Women Shellfishers and Food Security Project, World Agroforestry (ICRAF), Nairobi, Kenya and Coastal Resources Center, Graduate School of Oceanography, University of Rhode Island. Narragansett, RI, USA. WSFS2022_02_CRC. 45 pp

10. Carsan, S., McMullin, S., Obiri, D. B., Duguma, L., Guuroh, R., Bah, A., Orero, L., Muthee, K. (2022). Technical Report on Site Based Research in Ghana and The Gambia: Land-seascape Food and Nutrition Profiles. Women Shellfishers and Food Security Project, World Agroforestry (ICRAF), Nairobi, Kenya and Coastal Resources Center, Graduate School of Oceanography, University of Rhode Island, Narragansett, RI, USA. WSFS2022_04_CRC. 78 pp

11. Obeng, E. A., Darkurah, I., Oduro, K.A., and Obiri, D. B., 2021. Local communities’ preferences and economic values for ecosystem services from Mole National Park in Ghana: A choice experiment approach. Global Ecology and Conservation 32 (2021) e01904. 12. Antwi, K. T., Obiri, D. B., Obeng, E. A. and Abugre, S. 2020. Assessment of Environmental Sources of Financial Risks on Commercial Banks in Ghana. International Journal of Finance & Banking Studies, Vol. 9 (3). ISSN: 2147-4486.

13. Obiri, D. B., Obeng, E.A. Oduro, K. A., Apetorgbor, M. M., Peprah, T., Dua-Gyamfi, A., and Mensah, J. K. 2020. Farmers’ attitudes and perceptions of herbicide usage in forest landscape restoration programs in Ghana. Scientific African 11 (2021) e00672.

14. Obeng, E.A., Obiri D. B., Oduro, K.A., Pentsil, S., Anglaaere, L.C., Foli, E.G., Ofori, D.A. 2020. Economic values of non-market forest ecosystem services derived from trees on cocoa farms. Current Research in Environmental Sustainability 2 (2020) 100019

15. Obiri, D. B., Obeng, E.A., Oduro, K. Pentsil, S. and Appiah-Kubi, E. 2020. Ghana Bamboo Value Chain Mapping. National Assessment INBAR Working paper 144pp INBAR-China. Creative Commons License (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0).

16. Obeng, E. A., Oduro, K.A., Obiri B.D, Abukari, H., Guroh R.T., Djagbletey, G. G, Appiah K. J. and Appiah, M. 2019. Impact of illegal mining activities on forest ecosystem services: Local communities' attitudes and willingness to participate in restoration activities in Ghana. Heliyon, 5(10):1-11

17. Obeng, E. A., Aguilar F. X., Obiri, D. B. and Oduro, K. A. 2019. Willingness to Pay to Restore Tropical Rainforest Watersheds using the Theory of Planned Behavior. Journal of Sustainable Development. Vol. 12(6), 62-81

18. Obiri, D.B., Osei, I. Kemausour, F. Addo, A. Decker, E. and Abayeta, G. K. 2019. Financial Analysis of Biomass (Sawmill & Oil Mill Solid Waste) Combustion for Electricity and Heat Generation. Feasibility studies on renewable energy for pilot project implementation in Ghana. BMF Germany/WASCAL/CSIR-Ghana

19. Obiri , D.B., Obiri, D. B., Oduro A. K., Nutakor. E. and Acquah (2019). Public and private sector development on forest products industry in Ghana. AFF Working Paper Vol. 4 (3). African Forest Forum, Nairobi. Kenya.

20. Obiri, D. B., Peprah, T., Nunoo, I., Obeng, E. A. and Opuni-Frimpong, E. 2018. Financial analysis of fuelwood production from woodlots in the savannah transition of Ghana. Ghana Journal of Forestry, 34, 58-72

21. Obiri, B.D. 2018. Public Private Partnerships: strategic investments for all-inclusive forestry sector development. Policy Brief 7(2), African Forest Forum Nairobi, Kenya

22. Korang, J.K., Obiri, D. B., Awuku, S. and Appiah, H. 2016. Calorific values and gravimetric yield of six wood fuel tree species in the forest transition of Ghana. Ghana Journal of Forestry, 31: 51-61

23. Opuni-Frimpong, E., Tepketey, S. L., Opoku, S., Mensah Opoku, E., Storer, A. J., Nyarko-Duah, N. y., Appiah-Kubi, E., Essien, C. and Obiri, D. B. 2016. Managing Mahogany Plantations in the Tropics. Field guide for farmers, 82 pp.

24. Hansen, C. P., Pouliot, M., Marfo, E., Obiri, D. B. and Treue, T. 2015. Forests, timber and rural livelihoods: Implications for the VPA and social safeguards in Ghana. Small Scale Forestry, 14 (4): 401-422.

25. Nunoo, I., Obiri Darko, B. and Owusu, V. 2015. ‘Restoring degraded forest landscape for food security: Evidence from cocoa agroforestry systems, Ghana.’ In: Kumar, C., Saint-Laurent, C., Begeladze, S. and Calmon, M. (eds.). In Enhancing food security through forest landscape restoration: Lessons from Burkina Faso, Brazil, Guatemala, Viet Nam, Ghana, Ethiopia and Philippines, pp. 122-143. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland

26. Damnyag, L., Bampoh, A.A., Tegegne, Y.T., Obiri, D. B. and Oduro, K.A. 2024. Assessment of revenue loss from illegal logging in Ghana’s informal timber sector. International Forestry Review Vol.26(1), 2024

27. Oduro, K.A. Obeng, E.A., Guuroh, R.T., Asante-Fosu, D., Mensah, E.S., Andoh, J., Abukari, H., Obiri, D. B. 2024. Local communities’ adaptation strategies for reducing vulnerabilities to climate change in cocoa-forest dominated landscapes in Ghana GeoJournal, 89:61. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10708-024-11052

28. Obeng, E.A., Andoh, J., Oduro, K.A., Obiri, D. B., Duah-Gyamfi, A. Guuroh, R.T Adu-Gyamfi A., Aloysius, N. and Clark, K. 2023. Impacts of Illegal Small-Scale Artisanal Gold Mining and Land Clearing Activities on Cocoa Cultivation: Farmers’ Perception on the Multiple Threats Facing the Cocoa Industry, and Rural Livelihoods. Research Report. CSIR-FORIG, Kumasi, Ghana. USDA-FAS-10961-0700-10.-20-0001

29. Yeboah, E., Dugan, E., Nartey, E., Innocent, Y.D., Frimpong, K.A., Obiri D, B., Egyir, I.., Akom, M.., Osei-Adu, J.., Otabil, P.K, Ason, B., Allotey, D.F.K, Moses, M., Sundberg,C., Adiku, S.G.K. 2022. Biochar Systems in Ghana. Agricultural and Food Science Journal of Ghana. Vol. 15. 1553- 1577

30. Obiri, D. B., Abukari, H., Oduro K. A., Quartey R. K., Dawoe E. L. K., Twintoh J. J. and Opuni-Frimpong, E. 2022. Rosewood (Pterocarpus erinaceus) as a de facto forest common for local communities in Ghana. International Journal of Biodiversity and Conservation. Vol. 14(1), pp. 1-13.

31. Duguma, L., Darko Obiri, B, Carsan, S., Muthee, K., Tang Guuroh, R., Antwi Oduro, K., Mcmullin, S., Duba, D. (2022). Participatory Land-Seascape Visioning in Densu Estuary, Narkwa Lagoon, and Whin Estuary, Ghana. Women Shellfishers and Food Security Project, World Agroforestry (ICRAF), Nairobi, Kenya and Coastal Resources Center, Graduate School of Oceanography, University of Rhode Island. Narragansett, RI, USA. WSFS2022_02_CRC. 45 pp

32. Carsan, S., McMullin, S., Obiri, D. B., Duguma, L., Guuroh, R., Bah, A., Orero, L., Muthee, K. (2022). Technical Report on Site Based Research in Ghana and The Gambia: Land-seascape Food and Nutrition Profiles. Women Shellfishers and Food Security Project, World Agroforestry (ICRAF), Nairobi, Kenya and Coastal Resources Center, Graduate School of Oceanography, University of Rhode Island, Narragansett, RI, USA. WSFS2022_04_CRC. 78 pp

33. Obeng, E. A., Darkurah, I., Oduro, K.A., and Obiri, D. B., 2021. Local communities’ preferences and economic values for ecosystem services from Mole National Park in Ghana: A choice experiment approach. Global Ecology and Conservation 32 (2021) e01904.

34. Antwi, K. T., Obiri, D. B., Obeng, E. A. and Abugre, S. 2020. Assessment of Environmental Sources of Financial Risks on Commercial Banks in Ghana. International Journal of Finance & Banking Studies, Vol. 9 (3). ISSN: 2147-4486.

35. Obiri, D. B., Obeng, E.A. Oduro, K. A., Apetorgbor, M. M., Peprah, T., Dua-Gyamfi, A., and Mensah, J. K. 2020. Farmers’ attitudes and perceptions of herbicide usage in forest landscape restoration programs in Ghana. Scientific African 11 (2021) e00672.

36. Obeng, E.A., Obiri D. B., Oduro, K.A., Pentsil, S., Anglaaere, L.C., Foli, E.G., Ofori, D.A. 2020. Economic values of non-market forest ecosystem services derived from trees on cocoa farms. Current Research in Environmental Sustainability 2 (2020) 100019

37. Obiri, D. B., Obeng, E.A., Oduro, K. Pentsil, S. and Appiah-Kubi, E. 2020. Ghana Bamboo Value Chain Mapping. National Assessment INBAR Working paper 144pp INBAR-China. Creative Commons License (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0).

38. Obeng, E. A., Oduro, K.A., Obiri B.D, Abukari, H., Guroh R.T., Djagbletey, G. G, Appiah K. J. and Appiah, M. 2019. Impact of illegal mining activities on forest ecosystem services: Local communities' attitudes and willingness to participate in restoration activities in Ghana. Heliyon, 5(10):1-11

39. Obeng, E. A., Aguilar F. X., Obiri, D. B. and Oduro, K. A. 2019. Willingness to Pay to Restore Tropical Rainforest Watersheds using the Theory of Planned Behavior. Journal of Sustainable Development. Vol. 12(6), 62-81

40. Obiri, D.B., Osei, I. Kemausour, F. Addo, A. Decker, E. and Abayeta, G. K. 2019. Financial Analysis of Biomass (Sawmill & Oil Mill Solid Waste) Combustion for Electricity and Heat Generation. Feasibility studies on renewable energy for pilot project implementation in Ghana. BMF Germany/WASCAL/CSIR-Ghana

41. Obiri , D.B., Obiri, D. B., Oduro A. K., Nutakor. E. and Acquah (2019). Public and private sector development on forest products industry in Ghana. AFF Working Paper Vol. 4 (3). African Forest Forum, Nairobi. Kenya.

42. Obiri, D. B., Peprah, T., Nunoo, I., Obeng, E. A. and Opuni-Frimpong, E. 2018. Financial analysis of fuelwood production from woodlots in the savannah transition of Ghana. Ghana Journal of Forestry, 34, 58-72

43. Obiri, B.D. 2018. Public Private Partnerships: strategic investments for all-inclusive forestry sector development. Policy Brief 7(2), African Forest Forum Nairobi, Kenya

44. Korang, J.K., Obiri, D. B., Awuku, S. and Appiah, H. 2016. Calorific values and gravimetric yield of six wood fuel tree species in the forest transition of Ghana. Ghana Journal of Forestry, 31: 51-61

45. Opuni-Frimpong, E., Tepketey, S. L., Opoku, S., Mensah Opoku, E., Storer, A. J., Nyarko-Duah, N. y., Appiah-Kubi, E., Essien, C. and Obiri, D. B. 2016. Managing Mahogany Plantations in the Tropics. Field guide for farmers, 82 pp.

46. Hansen, C. P., Pouliot, M., Marfo, E., Obiri, D. B. and Treue, T. 2015. Forests, timber and rural livelihoods: Implications for the VPA and social safeguards in Ghana. Small Scale Forestry, 14 (4): 401-422.

47. Nunoo, I., Obiri Darko, B. and Owusu, V. 2015. ‘Restoring degraded forest landscape for food security: Evidence from cocoa agroforestry systems, Ghana.’ In: Kumar, C., Saint-Laurent, C., Begeladze, S. and Calmon, M. (eds.). In Enhancing food security through forest landscape restoration: Lessons from Burkina Faso, Brazil, Guatemala, Viet Nam, Ghana, Ethiopia and Philippines, pp. 122-143. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland

48. Parrotta, J. A., Dey de Pryck, J. Obiri, D. B., Padoch, C. Powell B., Sandbrook, C., Agarwal, B. Ickowitz, A., Jeary, K. Serban, A. Sunderland, T and Tu, N. 2015. The Historical, Environmental and Socio-Economic Context of Forests and Tree-Based Systems for Food Security and Nutrition. In Forests, Trees and Landscapes for Food Security and Nutrition: A Global Assessment Report. IUFRO World Series 33, 51-85. Editors: Bhaskar Vira, Christoph Wildburger, Stephanie Mansourian

49. Jamnadass, R., McMullin, S., Iiyama, M., Dawson, I. K. Powell B., Termote, C., Ickowitz, A., Kehlenbeck, K., Vinceti, B., van Vliet, N., Keding, G., Stadlmayr, B., Van Damme, P., Carsan, S., Sunderland, T., Njenga, M., Gyau, A., Cerutti, P., Schure, J., Kouame, C., Obiri, D. B., Ofori, D., Agarwal, B., Neufeldt, H., Degrande, A. and Serban, A. 2015. Understanding the Roles of Forests and Tree-based Systems in Food Provision. In Forests, Trees and Landscapes for Food Security and Nutrition: A Global Assessment Report. IUFRO World Series 33, 25-49. Editors: Bhaskar Vira, Christoph Wildburger, Stephanie Mansourian.

50. De Pinto, A., Robertson, R. D. and Obiri, D. B. 2013. Adoption of climate change mitigation practices by risk-averse farmers in the Ashanti Region, Ghana. Ecological Economics, 86:47-54

51. Obiri, D.B., Nunoo, I., Obeng, E. A., Owusu, F. W. and Marfo, E. 2014. The Charcoal Industry in Ghana: An alternative Livelihood Option for Displaced Illegal Chainsaw Lumber Producers. Tropenbos International, Wageningen, the Netherlands. 132pp

52. Birikorang, G., Marfo, E., Kyere, B. and Obiri, D.B. 2014. Scenario and Cost Benefit Analysis of Policy Options for the Supply of Legal Timber to the Domestic Market, Tropenbos International, Wageningen, the Netherlands, 176 pp

53. Ofori, D. A., Obiri, D. B., Gyimah, A., Adam, K. A., Jimoh, S. O. and Jamnadass, R. 2012. Ethnobotany, propagation and conservation of medicinal plants in Ghana. Ghana Journal of Forestry, 28(1):29-38

54. Pouliot, M., Treue, T., Obiri, D. B. and Ouedraogo, B. 2012. Deforestation and the limited contribution of forests to rural livelihoods in West Africa: Evidence from Burkina Faso and Ghana. AMBIO, A journal of the Human Environment, 41(7):738-750

55. Obiri, D.B., Marfo, E., Obeng, E.A., Owusu, W.F., Agyeman, V. and Acquah S.B. 2012. Ghana Timber Industry Value Added Processing Study: PART I: Nation-wide survey on value added processing of timber industries in Ghana. NREG/TIDD, FC. Ghana. 102pp.

56. Obiri, D.B., Marfo, E., Obeng, E.A., Owusu, W.F., Agyeman, V. and Acquah S.B. 2012. Ghana Timber Industry Value Added Processing Study: PART II: Policy interventions for enhancing value added processing in the Ghanaian industry. NREG/TIDD, FC. Ghana. 38pp.

57. Obiri, D. B., Agyeman, V. K., Kyereh, B., Nutakor, E., Obeng, E. A., Agyeman, A. and Britwum, S. 2011. Perception and participation of local people in tree planting initiatives in Northern Ghana. Ghana Journal of Forestry, 27(3):80-93

58. Hansen, C. P., Damnyag, L., Obiri, D. B. and Carlsen, K. 2011. Revisiting illegal logging and the size of the domestic timber market: The case of Ghana. International Forestry Review, 14 (1):39-49

59. Obiri D. B. and L. Damnyag, 2011. Socio-economic contribution of illegal chainsaw milling to the Ghanaian rural economy. Ghana Journal of Forestry, 27:50-67

60. Obiri, D. B., Marfo, E., Nutakor, E., Cobbinah, J and Treue, T. 2011. Estimating rural forest dependency in Ghana: Contextual information, methods and preliminary results. Danida-PEN. Ghana country working paper. FOREST AND LANDSCAPE WORKING PAPER NO. 64, Copenhagen, Denmark.

61. Akon-Yamga, G., Boadu, P., Obiri, D.B., Amoako, J. and Mboob, F. J. 2011. Agricultural innovations for climate change adaptation and food security in Africa: the cases of Ghana and the Gambia, African Technology Policy Studies Network RESEARCH PAPER No. 11. 56pp

62. Bosu, P. P., Cobbinah, J. R., Obiri, D.B., Nkrumah, E. E., Stephens, S. S and Wagner, M. R. 2010. Handbook on Mixed Indigenous Species Plantations in Ghana. Forestry Research Institute of Ghana (FORIG)/International Tropical Timber Organization (ITTO). 37pp.

63. Obiri, D. B. and Addai, A. 2007. People and Plants: A survey of economic botanicals on the Kumasi central market. Ghana Journal of Forestry, 21 and 22:50-71

64. Obiri, D.B., Marfo, E., Damnyag, L., Nutakor, E., Agyeman, V. and Ofori, J. 2009. Ghana Domestic Timber Market Study. NREG/TIDD, FC. Ghana

65. Obiri, B.D., Damnyag, L., 2009. Market and Financial Environment of Chainsaw Milling in Ghana: In Marfo, E., Adam, A. K., Obiri, B.D. (Eds), Ghana case study of illegal chainsaw milling. Developing alternative to illegal chainsaw milling through multi-stakeholder dialogue in Ghana and Guyana project.

66. Abeney, E., Obiri, D. B., Nutakor, E., Oduro, W. and Boateng, O. G. 2008. Social and Environmental Impact Assessment of the FORM Agro-forestry Plantations, Asubima Forest Reserve. FoRM Ghana. LTD.

67. Obiri, D.B. 2008. The rattan supply chain and marketing in Ghana. Assessment of the Feasibility of Rattan Processing and Marketing for Sustainable Income Generation in West Africa. Technical Report UNIDO. YA/RAF/07/016 17-51. 58p

68. Obiri, D. B. and Oteng-Amoako, A. 2007. Towards a sustainable development of the bamboo industry in Ghana. Ghana Journal of Forestry, 21 and 22:14 – 27

69. Obiri, D. B., Bright, G. A., McDonald, M. A., Anglaaere, L.C.N. and Cobbina, J. 2007. Financial analysis of shaded cocoa in Ghana. Agroforestry Systems, 71(2):139-149

70. Obiri, D. B., Bright, G.¸ McDonald M.A., Jatango J.A., Cobbina, J. and Sinclair, F. 2007. The Economic potential and farmer perceptions of herbaceous legume fallows in Ghana. Experimental Agriculture, 43 (3):269-287

•PhD Agroecology (Economics) Bangor University, Wales, UK (2000-2004)

•MSc Agroforestry (Tropical & Temperate Agroforestry, Environmental and Agric. Economics; Forest Policy, Rural Development), Aberdeen University, Scotland (1994-1995)

•BSc Agriculture (Agricultural Economics and Farm Management) Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana (1989 – 1992)

Socio-economics, Agricultural & Natural Resource Economics

Economics of Agric & Forestry Production Systems

Economics of Bioenergy Production Systems

Economics of Environmental Investments

Social, Economic & Environmental Impact assessment

Agric & Forestry Commodity Supply and Value Chains, Marketing & Trade

Baseline/Feasibility studies

Monitoring and Evaluation, Adoption & Impact Assessment,

Livelihoods and Gender Analyses

Forest-Agricultural Landscape

Analyses & Restoration

Multistakeholder Stakeholder Engagement

Community Participatory/Action Research incl. Participatory Technology Development

2024-Date Head Natural Resources Management Department, CSIR College of Science of Technology (CCST).

2023-Date Chief Research Scientist (Socio-economics), CSIR-Forestry Research Institute of Ghana

2021-2023 Deputy Director, CSIR-Forestry Research Institute of Ghana (CSIR-FORIG).

2020-2021 Senior Research Coordinator. Tropenbos Ghana.

2017-Date Senior, Lecturer (Natural Resource Economics) CSIR College of Science and Technology (CCST.

2014-2023 Principal Research Scientist (Socio-economics), CSIR-Forestry Research Institute of Ghana

2009- 2014 Senior Research Scientist (Socio-economics), CSIR-Forestry Research Institute of Ghana

2008 Visiting Academic/Lecturer (Agroforestry Economics). School of Environment and Natural Resources, Bangor University, Wales, UK

1997-2009 Research Scientist (Socio-economics), CSIR-Forestry Research Institute of Ghana.

1996-1996 Assistant Research Scientist (Socio-economics), CSIR-Soil Research Institute

1992-1993 Research Assistant (Agricultural economics), Institute of Renewable Natural Resources, KNUST, Kumasi, Ghana

2024-Date Head, Department of Natural Resources Management, CSIR-College of Science & Technology (CCST), University of Cape Coast

2023-Date Head, Economics and marketing Division, CSIR-FORIG

2021-2023 Deputy Director, CSIR-FORIG

2017-Date Senior Lecturer, Natural Resource Economics & Bioproduct Marketing, CCST, UCC

2016-2017 Head, Forest Products and Marketing Division, CSIR-FORIG

2011-2012 Head, Forest Products and Trade Unit, CSIR-FORIG

2008-2009 Head, Forest Products and Marketing Division, CSIR-FORIG

2007-2008 Head Socio-economics, Policy and Marketing Division, CSIR-FORIG

2017-Date Senior Lecturer, Natural Resource Economics & Bio-Product Marketing, CSIR-College of Science and Technology (CCST), UCC

2008 Visiting Academic to teach a course in Agroforestry Economics. Bangor university, Wales, UK

2005-Date Supervision, Assessment of Masters and PhD Theses School of Graduate Studies, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana.

School of Forest Sciences, University of Energy and Natural Resources (UNER), Ghana

CSIR-College of Science and Technology (CCST), UCC Faculty of Environmental Sciences and Natural Resources Management.

Norwegian University of Life Sciences School of Business, Makerere University, Uganda

2022: FAO travel Grant to the World Forestry Congress, CEOX Seoul, Republic of Korea 2-6 May 2022

2022: INBAR, West & Central Africa travel grant to the African Bamboo and Rattan Congress (ABARC), Cameroon. April 2022

2018: International Bamboo and Rattan Research Centre, China. travel grant to 2018 Bamboo and Rattan Congress (BARC), China

2017: UN FAO, Grant for training in Bioenergy and Food Security Approach and Rapid Appraisal, Energy Institute Hrvoje Požar. Zagreb, Croatia

2016: FLARE Network travel grant to the 2nd Flare conference, University of Edinburgh, UK, December 2016

2015: University of Missouri, USA Incentive Fellowship for visiting scientists towards collaborative research

2014: IUFRO SPDC travel grant to the 24th IUFRO World Congress, Salt Lake

2013: FAO Travel grant the Food Security Conference, Rome, Italy, May 2013

City, Utah, USA. October 5-11, 2014

2013: Commonwealth Professional Fellowship by the Commonwealth Commission, UK for Bio-Energy and Climate Change course at the University of Edinburgh, UK

2012: IUFRO SPDC travel grant to the ITTO-IUFRO FORNESSA conference at Nairobi, Kenya

2010: IUFRO SPDC travel grant to the 23rd IUFRO World Congress, CEOX Seoul, Republic of Korea. August 23-28, 2010

2008: European Union-ERSMUS MUNDUS SUTROFOR Scholarship for Visiting Academics to teach MSc. Course in Agroforestry Economics at Bangor University, Wales, UK

2010-2013: DFID NRSP, UK award for PhD studies, Bangor University, Wales, UK

1998: DSE Germany Scholarship for Training in Interdisciplinary Team Research, ICRA/International Agricultural Centre, Wageningen, Netherlands

1994-1995: UK Overseas Development Shared Scholarship Scheme (ODASS) & Association of Commonwealth Universities (ACU) scholarship to study MSc. Agroforesty in Aberdeen, UK

CORAF-ICRAF Indigenous Fruits Tree Project

Bioversity International-CIAT Sustainable Intensification of Mixed-Farming Systems (SI-MFS)

Ghana Plantations Fund Board -CSIR FORIG. Economics of Forest Plantation Development in Ghana: The Case of FC Industry Plantations

World Bank/Forestry Commission, Ghana. Assessment of Deforestation and Forest Degradation in Community Resource Management Areas in the Northern Savanna Zone – under the Ghana Shea Landscape Emission Reductions Project (GSLERP).

USAID/CIFOR-ICRAF. Developing and promoting the adoption and dissemination of food and non-food tree systems for enhancing food, dietary, energy and income diversity among shellfishers

USDA-University of Missouri/CSIR-FORIG- Documenting Impacts of Artisanal Mining and Land Clearing on Cocoa Cultivation in Ghana

Ghana Forest Investment Programme (GFIP)/ CSIR-FORIG. The Impact of Agrochemical Usage on Cocoa Farms: Implications on Livelihoods and Cocoa Landscape Management. CSIR-FORIG/FIP

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Research Staff Association of CSIR

Ghana Association of Agricultural Economists (GAAE)

Forestry Research Network of sub-Saharan Africa (FORNESSA)

International Union of Forest Research Organizations (IUFRO)