Dr. Kwame Oduro Antwi
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Dr. Kwame Antwi Oduro is a Principal Research Scientist and an expert in natural resources governance. He has over 20 years of experience in natural resource governance, forestry research, and related fields. He is also experienced in project coordination and has over a decade of management and administrative experience.
Dr. Oduro is results-oriented, innovative, resourceful, and highly committed to teamwork. He is well-organized, approachable, and possesses strong communication skills. Dr. Oduro has an impressive academic and research portfolio, having authored or co-authored over 75 research publications.
1. Oduro, K. A., Obeng, E. A., Abukari, H., Guuroh, R. T., Andoh, J., Mensah, E. S., ... & Louman, B. (2024). Local communities’ adaptation strategies for reducing vulnerabilities to climate change in cocoa-forest-dominated landscapes in Ghana. GeoJournal, 89(2), 61.
2. Andoh, J., Martey, E., Obeng, E.A., Oduro, K.A. Salimath, P. and Lee, Y., (2024). Safeguarding Local communities for REDD+ implementation in Ghana. Forests, 15(8), p.1349.
3. Henry Throp, Sebastian Angzoorokuu Paalo, Kwame Antwi Oduro, Elizabeth Asantewaa Obeng, Reginald Tang Guuroh, Jewel Andoh, Abdul Boudiaf and Thiago Kanashiro Uehara. 2023. Net-zero’s nature knot: A tug of war with rural realities. https://forestgovernance.chathamhouse.org/publications/net-zeros-nature-knot-a-tug-of-war-with-rural-realities
4. Obeng E.A., Darko Obiri, B., Oduro, K.A., Frimpong, A. and Foli, G.E. 2022. The Impact of Agrochemical Usage on Cocoa Farms: Implications on Livelihoods and Cocoa Landscape Management. CSIR-FORIG/FIP Technical Report
5. Andoh, J., Oduro K.A., Park, J. and Lee Y. 2022. Towards REDD+ implementation: Deforestation and forest degradation drivers, REDD+ financing, and readiness activities in participant countries. Frontiers in Forests and Global Change 5:957550. doi: 10.3389/ffgc.2022.957550. (Impact Factor: 4.332).
6. Obiri, B.D., Abukari, H. Oduro, K.A., Quartey, R.K., Dawoe, E.L.K., Twintoh, J.J. and Opuni-Frimpong, E. 2022. Rosewood (Pterocarpus erinaceus) is a de facto forest common for local communities in Ghana. International Journal of Biodiversity and Conservation 14(1):1-13. doi: 10.5897/IJBC2021.1512.
7. Obeng, E. A., Dakurah, I., Oduro, K. A., Obiri, B. D., 2021. Local communities’ preferences and economic values for ecosystem services from Mole National Park in Ghana: A choice experiment approach. Global Ecology and Conservation e01904
8. Obeng, E.A., Obiri, B.D., Oduro, K.A., Pentsil, S., Anglaaere, L.C.N., Foli, E.G. and Ofori, D.A. 2020. The economic value of non-market ecosystem services derived from trees on cocoa farms. Current Research in Environmental Sustainability 2(100019): 1-15.
9. Oduro, K.A., Damnyag, L., Abukari, H., Abbey, A., Obeng, E.A., Twumasi-Ankra, A. and Foli, E.G. 2020. Livelihood assets and predicted effects of REDD+ implementation in farming communities in the transition and high forest zones of Ghana. Ghana Journal of Forestry, 36(1): 34 – 57.
10. Obeng, E.A., Oduro, K.A. and Darko Obiri, B. 2019. Application of the theory of planned behaviour in predicting US residents’ willingness to pay to restore degraded tropical rainforest watersheds. Journal of Sustainable Development 12 (6): 62-81
Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA), Ghana
PhD in Forest Management and Governance
Wageningen University, Netherlands (2016)
MSc in Forestry and its Relation to Land Use
University of Oxford, UK (2001)
BSc (First Class) in Natural Resources Management
Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Ghana (2000).
•Forest plantations
•REDD+ and climate change issues
•Local community livelihoods
Principal Research Scientist, CSIR-FORIG. Research activities include governance of forest landscape restoration, understanding how global and national policy instruments impact forest resources and the people who depend on them as well as understanding governance of forest resources, focusing on participation, transparency, and accountability as well as equitable distribution of benefits.
January 2015 – Dec. 2020
Senior Research Scientist, CSIR-FORIG. Research priority focused on socio-economic and agro-ecological studies, design of REDD+ benefit sharing plan for the Ghana Cocoa Forest REDD+ Programme (GRFRP) Area, climate change risk assessment, and /studies on supply of legal wood to the domestic market in Ghana
January 2006 – Dec. 2014
Research Scientist, CSIR-FORIG. The focus of my research was in the area of scenario analysis for sustainable management of Ghana’s high forests, preparation of REDD+ pilot schemes in off-reserve forests and agroforests, development of wood fuel management plans for Ghana, legal and institutional studies, and impact of development assistance in the forestry sector.
January 2003 – Dec. 2005
Junior Scientific Coordinator, Tropenbos International Ghana Programme, Wageningen, the Netherlands. Assisted in the scientific coordination of the research projects under the Tropenbos International-Ghana Programme.
January 2002 – Dec. 2002
Research Scientist, CSIR-FORIG. Research mainly focused on the assessment of Allanblackia spp. stock in the high forest zone of Ghana to support seed oil production, and multipurpose rainforests management in Ghana.
October 1999 – Sept. 2000
National Service, CSIR-FORIG. Responsible for data collection under an ITTO-sponsored project on Silviculture and the economics of forest management. I was part of a three-member team that organized training workshops on forest plantation development for farmers and other stakeholders in five regions (Ashanti, the then Brong Ahafo, Central, Eastern, and Western) of Ghana. I also assisted with office duties at the Forest Plantation Development Centre, Akyawkrom, Kumasi.
• Member, CSIR Governing Council (CSIR Council) and also a member of the R&D subcommittee of CSIR Council
• National RSA President, CSIR-Research Staff Association, CSIR Ghana.
I have been teaching Natural Resources Governance courses to MPhil/MSc students at CCST since 2016. Between 2016 and 2017, I lectured second- and third-year BSc students in Introduction to Agroforestry and Agroforestry Multipurpose Trees respectively; and MPhil students in Multipurpose Trees and Shrubs at the Agroforestry Department, Faculty of Renewable Natural Resources, KNUST
I have also supervised over fifteen (15) MPhil students and currently supervising five (5) ongoing MPhil theses.
• Received funding to attend the Global Landscape Forum (GLF) - Restoring Africa’s Landscapes: catalyzing action from above and below. Accra International Conference Centre, Accra, Ghana.
• Awarded a grant by the Association of African Universities (AAU) as a Facilitator for strengthening scientific writing skills for publishing research outputs in peer-reviewed journals workshop. Gaborone, Botswana
• Awarded a grant by the Association of African Universities (AAU) as a Facilitator for a training workshop on scientific writing in Accra, Ghana
Team Member: Gender Equality and Climate Resilience of West African Cacao-Dependent Households. Funded by the Swedish Research Council.
2023–2024.
Team Member: Assessment of Deforestation and Forest Degradation in Community Resource Management Areas in the Northern Savanna Zone – under the Ghana Shea Landscape Emission Reductions Project. Funds provided by World Bank/Forestry Commission, Ghana.
2022–2023.
Team Member: Documenting Impacts of Artisanal Mining and Land Clearing on Cocoa Cultivation in Ghana. Project funded by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA).
2020–2021.
Team Member: Governance of Forest Landscape Restoration – Analyses of Governance Issues in Cases from Ghana and India. Funded by the Special Programme for Development of Capacities (SPDC), IUFRO.
2019.
Team Member: Evaluating the Suitability of Four Tree Species for Planting on Degraded Mined Sites in Ghana: Ecological Study. Funded by CSIR-FORIG/Government of Ghana.
2018–2020.
Team Member: Forest Investment Programme - Socio-economic and agro-ecological studies. Funded by the Ministry of Lands and Natural Resources/World Bank
• African Forest Forum (AFF)
• Forestry Research Network for Sub-Saharan Africa (FORNESSA)
• International Union of Forest Research Organizations (IUFRO)
National/Local
• 2006 – Date: CSIR Research Staff Association (CSIR RSA)
• 2022 – Date: Ghana Science Association (GSA)
• 2023 – Date: Ghana Institute of Foresters