Shalom D Addo-Danso (PhD)

Position: Senior Research Scientist     
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Professional fields of Interest: Forest Landscape Restoration, Forest Ecology, Agroforestry, Climate Change, Land Use Change, Biodiversity Conservation, Carbon and nutrient cycling, and Plant-soil Interactions

Professional Background:

Ph.D. (Forestry), Faculty of Forestry, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada. September 2012-August 2017

Master of Science (Forest Ecology and Management), Albert-Ludwigs University, Freiburg, Germany. October 2008-August 2010

Bachelor of Science (Natural Resource Management, Silviculture and Forest Management Option), Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana. September 2001-May 2005

Relevant Professional Development and Training:

• Training in Media Communication Skills for Researchers. Training organized by The Royal Society, UK, August 2022.
• Systematic Evidence Evaluation on Forest Landscape Restoration, IUFRO-SPDC’s online Training Workshop, April 2021.
• Bamboo Stock and Carbon Assessment, Training organized by International Bamboo and Rattan Organization (INBAR), May 2019
• Science-society interactions in support of Forest Landscape Restoration implementation, IUFRO 125th Anniversary Congress, Freiburg, Germany, September 2017.        
• Professional Development for effective learning and promoting inclusivity in the classroom. Biology Teaching Assistant Professional Development Programme (BioTAP), The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, March-June 2016.
• Preparing and writing research proposals. A two-day pre-IUFRO-FORNESSA Regional Congress training workshop in Nairobi, Kenya, June 2012.    
• Agriculture and Land Use (ALU) national Greenhouse Gas (GHG) inventory software and other inventory tools. Training workshop in Asutuare, Ghana, May 2012.  
• Data Analysis and Write up. A four-day workshop organized for field staff of Carbon Use Efficiency in Kumasi, Ghana, May 2012.
• REDD+ project methodology development training workshop. Nairobi, Kenya, September 2011
• Establishment and management of ecosystem research station. A month-long international training in Beijing, China, June-July 2008. 

Professional Experience:

• January 2022-date: Senior Research Scientist, Forestry Research Institute of Ghana, of Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR-FORIG)
• February 2022-August 2022: Research Associate (Agroecology and Agroecosystems Functions), Integrative Agroecology Lab., University of Toronto Scarborough, Ontario, Canada
• August 2010-January 2022: Research Scientist, Forestry Research Institute of Ghana, of Council for Scientific and Industrial Research
• October 2017-March 2018: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
• January 2007-August 2008: Assistant Research Scientist, Forestry Research Institute of Ghana, of Council for Scientific and Industrial Research 

Research Projects:

• 2022: Using trait-based approach to assess the impacts of shade trees on the provision of ecosystem services and core microbiome in cocoa agroforestry systems. (Marney E. Isaac and Shalom D. Addo-Danso). Funding by Canadian Research Chair Program. 
• 2019-2022: Building capacity to monitor and understand forests response to climate change in Ghana. Collaborating Principal Investigator (Sophie Fauset and Shalom D. Addo-Danso). Funding by Global Challenges Research Fund, UK. 
• 2019-2022: Functional traits, nutrient resorption and stoichiometric patterns along a rainfall gradient in Ghana. Sole Investigator. Funding from Royal Society, UK. 
• 2019-2022: Recovery potential of tropical forest ecosystem functioning following gold mining. Collaborating Principal Investigator (Sophie Fauset and Shalom D. Addo-Danso). Funding from Royal Society, UK. 
• 2020-2022: Effects of herbicide on plant functional traits, functioning and provision of ecosystem services in plantations. Collaborating Principal Investigator (Shalom D. Addo-Danso, Akwasi Duah-Gyamfi, Mary Apetorgbor). Funding from Government of Ghana. 
• 2019-2020: Forest Landscape Restoration Implementation: Lessons learned from selected landscapes in Africa, Asia and Latin America. German Federal Government through the International Union of Forest Research Organizations (IUFRO). Collaborator (Michael Kleine, John Stanturf, Ernest Foli, Shalom D. Addo-Danso, Reginald Guuroh). 
• 2013-2016: Impact of logging on the productivity, carbon cycling and allocation of a tropical forest in Ghana. Sole Investigator, Funding by International Foundation for Science (IFS).
• 2011-2012: Biodiversity conservation and carbon storage potential of Tano Sacred Grove in the Transition Zone of Ghana. Collaborating Principal Investigator (Shalom D. Addo-Danso, Paul P. Bosu, Gloria Djagbletey, George Ametsitsi, Akwasi Duah-Gyamfi). 

Publications:

1. Addo-Danso, S.D., Asare, R., Tettey, A., Schmidt, J.E., Sauvedet, M., Coulis, M., Belliard, N. and Isaac, M.E. (2024). Shade tree functional traits drive critical ecosystem services in cocoa agroforestry systems in Ghana. Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment, 372: 109090. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agee.2024.109090 
2. Schmidt, J., Addo-Danso, S.D., Asare, R., Tettey, A. and Isaac, M.E. (2024). Soil quality reflects microbial resource availability and drives rhizospheric microbiome variation in Ghanaian cocoa farms. Applied Soil Ecology. 198: 105378. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apsoil.2024.105378 
3. Root-Berstein, M., Addo-Danso, S.D. and Bestelmeyer, B.A. Rewilding perspective on woodland change dynamics across anthropogenic dry forests of the Southern Cone and the Sahel.  Accepted with revisions, Frontiers in Forests and Global Change. 
4. Cusack, D., Christoffersen, B., Smith-Martin, C.M., Andersen, K.M., Cordeiro, A.L., Fleischer, K., Wright, S.J., Guerrero-Ramírez, N.R., Lugli, L.F., McCulloch, L.A., Sanchez-Julia, M., Batterman, S.A., Dallstream, C., Fortunel, C., Toro, L., Fuchslueger, L., Wong, M.Y., Yaffar, D., Fisher, J.B., Arnaud, M., Dietterich, L.H., Addo-Danso, S.D., Valverde-Barrantes, O.J., Weemstra, M., Ng, J.C. and Norby, R.J. (2024). Toward a coordinated understanding of hydro-biogeochemical root functions in tropical forests for application in vegetation models. New Phytologist, 24: 1-21. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.19561  
5. Addo-Danso, S.D., Defrenne, C.E., Yaffar, D. and Lugli, L.F. (2024). Editorial: Insights into forest ecosystems belowground processes and functioning in a changing environment. Frontiers in Forests and Global Change, 7:1363762. https://doi.10.3389/ffgc.2024.1363762
6. Zhang-Zheng, H., Adu-Bredu, S., Duah-Gyamfi, A., Addo-Danso, S.D., Ibrahim, F., Amissah, L., Valentini, R., Djagbletey, G.D., Anim-Adjei, K., Owusu-Afriyie, K., Gvozdevaide, A., Ruiz-Jaen, M., Girardin, C.A.J., Rifai, S., Dahlsjö, C., Riutta, T., Deng, X., Tang, M., Sun, Y., Prentice, I.C., Menor, I.O. and Malhi, Y. (2024). Contrasting carbon cycling along tropical forest aridity gradients in West Africa and Amazonia. Nature Communications, 15: 3158. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-47202-x
7. Yaffar, D., Addo-Danso, S.D., Powers, J.S., Meier, I.C. (2023). Fundamental but forgotten: Root carbon stocks in African montane forests. Frontiers in Forests and Global Change, 6:1273996. https://doi:10.3389/ffgc.2023.1273996 
8. Ansah, P.B., Addo-Danso, S.D., Belford, E.J.D., Asomaning, J.M., Asare-Ansah, A.B., Fosu, N.A. and Ankobiah, R.A. (2023). Temperature and soil nutrients drive seed traits variation in Pterocarpus erinaceus (African rosewood) in Ghana. Plant-Environment Interactions, 4:215-227. https://doi:10.1002/pei3.10120 
9. Tannor, S.J., Borgemeister, C., Addo-Danso, S.D., Greve, K. and Tischbein, B. (2023). Climate variability and mining sustainability: exploring operations’ perspectives on local effects and the willingness to adapt in Ghana. SN Business and Economics, 3:141. https://doi.org/10.1007/s43546-023-00515-3
10. Li, S., Yan, X., Huang, X., Addo-Danso, S.D., Lin, S. and Zhou, L. (2023). Physiological differences and transcriptome analysis reveal that high enzyme activity significantly enhances drought tolerance in Chinese fir (Cunninghamia lanceolata). Forests, 14:967. https://doi.org/10.3390/f14050967
11. Li, S., Yang, L., Huang, X., Zou, Z., Zhang, M., Guo, W., Addo-Danso, S.D., Zhou, L. (2023). Mineral nutrient uptake, accumulation, and distribution in Cunninghamia lanceolata in response to drought stress. Plants, 12:2140. https://doi.org/10.3390/plants12112140
12. Huang, X., Gu, W., Yang, L., Zou, Z., Zhang, X., Addo-Danso, S.D., Zhou, L. and Li, S. (2023). Effects of drought stress on non-structural carbohydrates in different organs of Cunninghamia lanceolata. Plants, 12:2477. https://doi.org/10.3390/plants12132477
13. Guuroh, R.T., Foli, E.G., Addo-Danso, S.D., Stanturf, J.A., Kleine, M. and Burns, J. (2021). Restoration of degraded forest reserves in Ghana. Reforesta, 12: 35-55. https://doi.org/10.21750/REFOR.12.05.97
14. Cusack, D.F., Addo-Danso, S.D., Agee, E.A., Andersen, K.M., Arnaud, M., Batterman, S.A., Bearley, F.Q., Ciochina, K.I., Cordeiro, A.L., Dallstream C., Diaz-Toribio, M.H., Dietterich, L.H., Fisher, J.B., Fleischer, K., Fortunel, C., Fuchsleueger, L., Guerrero-Ramírez, N.R., Kotowska, M.M., Lugli, L.F., Marin, C., McCulloch, L.A., Maeght, J-L., Metcalfe, D., Norby, R.J., Oliveira, R.S., Powers, J.S., Reichert, T., Smith, S.W., Smith-Martin, C.M., Soper, F.M., Toro, L., Umaña, M.N., Valverde-Barrantes, O.J., Weemstra, M., Werden, L.K., Wong, M., Wright, C.L., Wright, S.J. and Yaffar, D. (2021). Tradeoffs and synergies in tropical forest root traits and dynamics for nutrient and water acquisition: Field and Modeling Advances. Frontiers in Forests and Global Change, 4:704469. https://doi.org/10.3389/ffgc.2021.704469
15. Djagbletey, G.D., Addo-Danso, S.D., Duah-Gyamfi, A., Veenendaal, E.M., Feldpausch, T.R., Schrodt, F., Domingues, T.F., Saiz, G., Affum-Baffoe, K., Bird, M., Lloyd, J. and Meir, P. (2021). Woody plant composition, diversity and conservation status of a protected area in the transition zone of Ghana. Journal of the Ghana Science Association, 20: 6-16. 
16. Huasco, W.H., Riutta, T., Girardin, C.A.J., Pacha, F.H., Vilca, B.P., Moore, S., Rifai, S.W., del Aguila-Pasquel, P., Murakami, A.A., Freitag, R., Morel, A.C., Demissie, S., Doughty, C.E., Oliveras, I., Cabrera, D.F.G., Baca, L.D., Amézquita, F.F., Espejo, J.E.S., da Costa, A.C.L., Mendoza, E.O., Quesada, C.A., Ondo, F.E., Ndong, J.E., Ibrahim, F., Addo-Danso, S.D., Duah-Gyamfi, A., Djagbletey, G.D, Owusu-Afriyie, K., Amissah, L., Mbou, A.T., Marthews, T.R., Metcalfe, D.B., Aragão, L.E.O., Marimon-Junior, B.H., Marimon, B.S., Majalap, N., Adu-Bredu, S., Abernethy, K.A., Silman, M., Ewers, R.M., Meir, P. and Malhi, Y. (2021). Fine root dynamics across pantropic rainforest ecosystems. Global Change Biology, 27: 3657-3680. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.15677
17. Addo-Danso, S.D., Defrenne, C., McCormack, M.L., Ostonen, I., Addo-Danso, A., Foli, G.F., Borden, K.A., Isaac, M. and Prescott, C.E. (2020). Fine-root morphological trait variation in tropical forest ecosystems: an evidence synthesis. Plant Ecology, 221: 1-13. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11258-019-00986-1 
18. Ibrahim, F., Adu-Bredu, S., Addo-Danso, S.D., Duah-Gyamfi, A., Manu, E.A. and Malhi, Y. (2020). Patterns and controls on fine-root dynamics along a rainfall gradient in Ghana. Trees, 34: 917-929. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00468-020-01970-3
19. Borden, K.A., Anglaaere, L.C.N., Owusu, S., Martin, A.R., Buchanan, S.W., Addo-Danso, S.D. and Isaac, M.E. (2020). Soil texture moderates root functional traits in agroforestry systems across a climatic gradient. Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment, 295: 106915. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agee.2020.106915 
20. Li, S., Zhou, L., Addo-Danso, S.D., Ding, G., Sun, M., Wu, S. and Lin, S. (2020). Nitrogen supply enhances the physiological resistance of Chinese fir plantlets under polyethylene glycol (PEG) – induced drought stress. Scientific Reports, 10: 7509. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-64161-7 
21. Defrenne, C.E., McCormack, M.L., Roach, W.J., Addo-Danso, S.D., and Simard, S.W. (2019). Intraspecific fine-root trait-environment relationships across Interior Douglas-Fir forests of western Canada. Plants 8: 199. https://doi.org/10.3390/plants8070199
22. Addo-Danso, S.D., Prescott, C.E., Adu-Bredu, A., Duah-Gyamfi, A., Moore, S., Guy D.R., Forrester, D.I., Owusu-Afriyie, K., Marshall, P.L. and Malhi, Y. (2018). Fine-root exploitation strategies differ in tropical old growth and logged-over forests in Ghana. Biotropica, 50: 606-615. https://doi.org/10.1111/btp.12556
23. Rifai, S.W., Girardin, C.A.J., Berenguer, E., del Aguila-Pasquel, J., Dahlsjö, C.A.L., Doughty, C.E., Jeffery, K.J., Moore, S., Oliveras, I., Riutta, T., Rowland, L.M., Murakami, A., Addo-Danso, S.D., Brando, P., Burton, C., Ondo, F.E., Duah-Gyamfi, A., Amézquita, R.F. Freitag, R., Pacha, F.H., Huasco, W.H., Ibrahim F., Mbou, A.T., Mihindou, V.M., Peixoto, K.S., Rocha, W., Rossi, L.C., Seixas, M., Silva-Espejo, J.E., Abernethy, K.A., Adu-Bredu, S., Barlow J., da Costa, A.C.L., Marimon, B.S., Marimon-Junior, B.H., Meri, P., Metcalfe, D.B., Phillips, O.L., White, L.J.T. and Malhi, Y. (2018). ENSO drives interannual variation of forest woody growth across the tropics. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Science, 373:20170410. https://dx.doi/10.1098/rstb.2017.0410 
24. Moore, S., Adu-Bredu, S., Duah-Gyamfi, A., Addo-Danso, S.D., Ibrahim, F., Mbou, A.T., de Grandcourt, A., Valentini, R., Nicolini, G., Djagbletey, G., Owusu-Afriyie, K., Gvozdevaite, A., Oliveras, I., Ruiz-Jaen, M.C. and Malhi, Y. (2018). Forest biomass, productivity and carbon cycling along a rainfall gradient in West Africa. Global Change Biology, 24: e496-e510. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.13907
25. Djagbletey, G.D., Adu-Bredu, S., Duah-Gyamfi, A., Abeney, E.A., Asante, W.A., Akyeampong, E., Addo-Danso, S.D., Ametsitsi, G.K., Amponsah-Manu, E., Dabo, J. and Amponsah, J.O. (2018). Floristic composition and carbon stocks of tree species of different conservation status following selective logging in a moist semi-deciduous forest in Ghana. Ghana Journal of Forestry, 34: 15-34. 
26. Zhou, L., Lin S., Huang P., Lin, S., Addo-Danso, S.D., Ma Z. and Ding G. (2018). Effects of leaf age and exogenous hormones on callus initiation, rooting formation, bud germination, and plantlet formation in Chinese fir leaf cuttings. Forests, 9: 478. https://doi.org/10.3390/f9080478 
27. Prescott, C.E., Corrao K., Reid, A.M., Zukswert, J.M. and Addo-Danso S.D. (2017). Changes in mass, carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus in logs decomposing for 30 years in three Rocky Mountain coniferous forests. Canadian Journal of Forest Research, 47: 1418-1423. https://doi.org/10.1139/cjfr-2017-0001
28. Addo-Danso, S.D., Prescott, C.E. and Smith, A.R. (2016). Methods for estimating root biomass and production in forest and woodland ecosystem carbon studies: A review. Forest Ecology and Management, 359: 332-351. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2015.08.015
29. Agyeman, V.K., Addo-Danso, S.D., Boateng, K. and Abebrese, I.K. (2016). Vegetation assessment of native tree species in Broussonetia papyrifera-dominated degraded forest landscape in southern Ghana. Applied Vegetation Science, 19: 498-507. https://doi.org/10.1111/avsc.12241  
30. Prescott, C., Godbold, D.L., Helmisaari, H-S. and Addo-Danso, S.D. (2016). Introduction to forests, roots and soil carbon. Forest Ecology and Management, 359: 321. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2015.11.013
31. Zhou, L., Addo-Danso, S.D., Wu, P., Li, S., Zou, X., Zhang, Y. and Ma, X. (2016). Leaf resorption efficiency in relation to foliar and soil nutrient concentrations and stoichiometry of Cunninghamia lanceolata with stand development in southern China. Journal of Soils and Sediments, 16: 1448-1459. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11368-016-1352-2
32. Zhou, L., Addo-Danso, D.S., Wu, P., He, Z., Liu, C. and Ma, X. (2016). Biomass production, nutrient cycling and distribution in age-sequence Chinese fir (Cunninghamia lanceolata) plantations in subtropical China. Journal of Forestry Research, 27: 357-368. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11676-105-0167-0
33. Zhou, L., Addo-Danso, S.D., Wu, P., Li, S., Jia, Y. and Ma, X. (2015). Litterfall production and nutrient return in different-aged Chinese fir (Cunninghamia lanceolata) plantation in south China. Journal of Forestry Research, 26: 79-89. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11676-014-011-y
34. Addo-Danso, S.D., Bosu, P.P., Nkrumah, E.E., Pelz, D.R., Coke, S.A. and Adu-Bredu, S. (2012). Survival and growth of Nauclea diderrichii (De Wild.) and Pericopsis elata (Harms) in monoculture and mixed-species plots in Ghana. Journal of Tropical Forest Science, 24: 37-45. https://www.jstor.org/stable/23616950
35. Djagbletey, G.D., Addo-Danso, S.D., Foli, E.G., Cobbinah, J.R., Oteng-Amoako, A.A. and Frimpong-Mensah, K. (2011). Resistance of Milicia species to Phytolyma lata (Psyllidae): the role of leaf anatomical and morphological structures. Ghana Journal of Forestry, 27: 71-79.
36. Peprah, T., Ofori, D.A., Siaw, D.E.K.A., Addo-Danso, S.D., Cobbinah, J.R., Simons, A.J. and Jamnadass, R. (2009). Reproductive biology and characterisation of Allanblackia parviflora A. Chev. in Ghana. Genetic Resources and Crop Evolution, 56: 1037-1044. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10722-009-9475-6

Books, Handbooks, Book Chapter, Occasional Papers, Pamphlets and Policy Briefs:

• Addo-Danso, S.D., Boachie, M.S., Asiedu, E. and Boahen, I. (2023). Collaborative mechanisms to accelerate investments in landscape finance projects in the Juabeso-Bia landscape in Ghana. Tropenbos International Briefing Paper, pp. 10.
   
  Addo-Danso, S.D., Amissah, L., Duah-Gyamfi, A. and Adu-Bredu, S. (2021). Tropical moist forests. In FAO and ITPS (Eds.). Recarbonizing global soils: A technical manual of best management practices, Volume 2. Hot spots and bright spots of soil organic carbon. Food and Agriculture organization of the United Nations, Rome, Italy. https://doi.org/10.4060/cb6378en
• Addo-Danso, S.D., Guuroh, R.T., Oduro, K.A., Abukari, H. and Foli, E.G. (2020). Forest Landscape Restoration Implementation in Ghana as a Socioeconomic Opportunity. In Severino, R.R.P., Santos, C.S., Prescott, C (Eds.). Forest Landscape Restoration and Social Opportunities in the Tropical World, CEPAN, pp. 29-51. 
• Stanturf, J.A., Mansourian, S., Darabant, A., Kleine, M., Kant, P., Burns, J., Agena, A., Batkhuu, N.O., Ferreira, J., Foli, E., Guerra, A., Miah, M.D., Ranjatson, P., Sabogal, C., Addo-Danso, S.D., Badugu, S., Brienza, S., Chandel, P.V., Chander, S., Chandra, S., Cujcuj, B., Derero, A., González, O., Gutierrez, B., Guuroh, R.T., Hossain, A., Juárez, M.A., Kometter, R., Lokesh, J., López, F.L., Pereira, C., Rajendra, K., Randrianasolo, R., Razafimbelo, N.T., Chiranjeeva, R.M., Chandra, G.S.R., Sharma, D.S., Sukhbaatar, G., Thakur, S.K., Tavares, P.A., Tewari, V.P. and Verma, R.K. (2020). Forest Landscape Restoration Implementation: Lessons learned from selected landscapes in Africa, Asia and Latin America. Occasional Paper No. 33. IUFRO. Vienna, Austria, pp. 63. ISBN: 978-3-903345-03-4, ISSN: 1024-414X
• Addo-Danso, S.D., Asiedu, E. and Boachie, K.M. (2021). Restoring degraded landscapes and sustaining woodfuel value chains: what works for people and nature? Policy Brief, pp. 4. 
• Djagbletey, G.D., Adu-Bredu, S., Duah-Gyamfi, A., Aabeyir, R., Djagbletey, E.D., Akpalu, S.E., Adeyiga, G.K., Addo-Danso, S.D., Brown, H.W., Dabo, J. and Amponsah-Manu, E. (2020). Wood Density Handbook for some West African Trees. FAO and CSIR, ISBN 9988-7943-8-X, pp. 92.  
• Foli, E.G., Addo-Danso, S.D., Kleine, M. and Taboada, T. (2014). Reducing Deforestation and forest Degradation and Enhancing Environmental Services from Forests (REDDES). Project Information Factsheet, pp. 2.  
• Acquah, S.B., Ewudzi, E.E., Addo-Danso, S.D. and Cobbinah, J.R. (2007). GHANAREFS: Compilation of Titles and Analysis of These on Plants from Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, University of Ghana and University of Cape Coast. Plant Resources of Tropical Africa Network Office, Kumasi, Ghana, pp. 183. 

Edited Research Reports:

• Addo-Danso, S.D., Prescott, C.E. and de Montigny, L. (2019). Responses of Western Hemlock, Western Redcedar, and Amabilis fir to fertilization: A synthesis. Province of B.C., Victoria, B.C. Technical Report 123. www.for.gov.bc.ca/hfd/pubs/Tr123.htm
• Addo-Danso, S.D. (2017). Impact of logging on the productivity, carbon cycling and allocation of a tropical forest in Ghana. Final Project Report Submitted to International Foundation for Science (IFS), pp. 14. CSIR-FORIG/SDA/TR/2017/187 
• Acheampong, E., Marfo, E. and Addo-Danso, S.D. (2014). Chainsaw operators, alternative livelihood options and climate change mitigation. Tropenbos International, Wageningen, the Netherlands, pp. 60. ISBN: 978-90-5113-120-8 

Technical Reports:

• Addo-Danso, S.D., Ameyaw, J.S., Gyampoh, B.A., Ashaigbor, G. and Akrasi, M.G. (2023). Situation Studies of the Lake Bosomtwe Biosphere Reserve (LBBR) and elaboration of a proposal to establish the LBBR as an ecohydrology demonstration site. Final Consultancy Report Submitted to United Nations Educational, Scientific and Industrial Organization (UNESCO) Accra Office, Ghana, pp. 83. 
• Addo-Danso, S.D., Ameyaw, J.S., Gyampoh, B.A., Ashaigbor, G. and Ofori Boateng, C. (2023). Stakeholder Consultation Report Under Situation Studies of the Lake Bosomtwe Biosphere Reserve. Final Consultancy Report Submitted to United Nations Educational, Scientific and Industrial Organization (UNESCO) Accra Office, Ghana, pp. 23. 
• Addo-Danso, S.D., Asiedu, E., Boachie, M. and Boahen, I. (2023). Collaborative mechanisms to align investments toward landscape objectives. Final Consultancy Report submitted to Tropenbos Ghana, pp. 61.
• Addo-Danso, S.D., Asiedu, E. and Boachie, M. (2022). Consolidation of project impact story report and opportunities for a follow-up intervention/scale up. Final Consultancy Report submitted to International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), pp. 58. 
• Addo-Danso, S.D. (2022). Restoration Barometer Report: Consultancy Services to Collect and Analyze Data for Bonn Challenge Barometer Application in Ghana. Final Consultancy Report submitted to International Union for Conservation of Nature, Eastern and Southern Africa Regional Office (IUCN-ESARO), Rwanda, pp. 20.
• Addo-Danso, S.D. and Amissah, L. (2021). Baseline desk review/study on landscape and land restoration efforts in Ghana. Final Consultancy Report submitted to Catholic Relief Service – USCCB, pp. 93. 
• Amissah, L., Addo-Danso, S.D. and Echeruo, J.B. (2021). Development and implementation of a Community Fire Management System for local communities in the Kintampo-Atebubu and Mole Ecological Landscapes in the Bono East and Savannah Regions, Ghana. Final Consultancy Report submitted to Deustche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammarbeit (GIZ) GmbH, pp. 44.
• Addo-Danso, S.D., Amissah, L., Echeruo, J.B., Owusu, A. and Asiedu-Opoku E. (2020). Restoration Opportunities Assessment Methodology (ROAM) diagnostic analysis for Kintampo-Atebubu and Mole Ecological landscapes in Bono East and Savannah Regions of Ghana. Final Consultancy Report submitted to International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), Ghana, pp. 127.
• Adjei, B., Echeruo, J.B., Adjei, B., Amissah, L., Addo-Danso, S.D., Boahen, I., Brown, W.H. and Boachie, M.S. (2020). Development of forest zone business case for basket of products (Cocoa, Cashew and Black pepper value chain) market analysis and development. Final Consultancy Report submitted to Tropenbos Ghana, pp. 45.  
• Owusu-Afriyie, Foli, E.G., Agyeman, V.K., Ametsitsi, G., Duah-Gyamfi, A., Addo-Danso, S.D., Nutakor, E., Darko Obiri, B., Adu-Bredu, S., Acquah, S.B., Akpalu, S., Djagbletey, G.D., Mensah, J., Obeng, E.A., Konto, C. and Pentsil, S. (2012). Independent Technical Assessment of the National Plantation Development Programme (NPDP). Final Consultancy Report for Brong Ahafo, Northern, Upper West and Upper East Regions submitted to the Ministry of Lands and Natural Resources, Accra, Ghana, pp. 29. 
• Oppong, S.K., Addo-Danso, S.D., Adu-Bredu, S. and Obiaw, E. (2011). Capacity Needs for REDD+ Readiness and Implementation in Africa: Case study of Ghana. Final Consultancy Report submitted to African Network for Agriculture, Agroforestry and Natural Resources Education (ANAFE)/World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF)/African Forest Forum (AFF), pp. 33. 
• Foli, E.G., Addo-Danso, S.D., Acquah, S.B. and Pentsil, S. (2011). Proposal for Training and Capacity Building activities for REDD Implementation in Ghana. Final Consultancy Report submitted to International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), Ghana, pp. 127. 
• Foli, E.G., Acquah, S.B. and Addo-Danso, S.D. (2010). Capacity Needs Assessment and Development of a Capacity Building Plan for REDD Implementation in Ghana. Final Consultancy Report submitted to International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) under the framework of the DANIDA-supported Pro-Poor REDD Project, Ghana, pp. 36.

Conference Paper Abstract (Edited):

• Addo-Danso, S.D. (2024). Sustaining gains made towards achieving the Bonn Challenge target for Ghana. XXVI IUFRO World Congress 2024: Forests and Society Towards 2050, Stockholm, Sweden, 23-29 June 2024.
• Addo-Danso, S.D. (2024). Restoring degraded riparian areas in Ghana: Key lessons for up scaling. XXVI IUFRO World Congress 2024: Forests and Society Towards 2050, Stockholm, Sweden, 23-29 June 2024.
• Addo-Danso, S.D. (2022). Restoring dry landscapes of Ghana: Key lessons for up scaling. Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation (ATBC) Meeting, Cartagena, Columbia, 10-14 July. 
• Addo-Danso, S.D. (2022). Landscape and landscape restoration efforts in Ghana: What are the issues?  National Workshop on Inclusive and Evidence-based Approaches to Accelerate Land Restoration in Northern Ghana. Organized by World Vision and Catholic Relief Services, Accra, 20-21 October 2022.  
• Addo-Danso, S.D., Amissah, L., Appiah, M., Foli, E., Ofori, D., Ametsitsi, G., Duah-Gyamfi, A., Guuroh, R.T., Djagbletey, G.D. and Adu-Bredu, S. (2019). Climate and fire influence fine root traits of topical forests across Ghana. Brazilian Journal of Forestry Research, 39: 656. http://dx.doi.org/10.4336/2019.pfb.39e201902043. Special Issue: Abstracts of the XXV IUFRO World Congress: Forest Research and Cooperation for Sustainable Development, Curitiba, Brazil, 29 September-5 October.
• Addo-Danso, S.D., Duah-Gyamfi, A., Adu-Bredu, S., Forzia, I., Moore, S., Amponsah, E.M. and Malhi, Y. (2019). Net primary productivity and its allocation in tropical old growth and logged-over forests in Ghana. In: Book of Abstracts, Tropical Biology and Sustainable Development, Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation (ATBC) Meeting, Antananarivo, Madagascar, 30 July – August 4, pp. 305.
• Adu-Bredu, S., Moore, S., Duah-Gyamfi, A., Addo-Danso, S., Ibrahim, I., Djagbletey, G., Manu, E.A., Oliveras, I. and Malhi, Y. (2019). Forest biomass, productivity, and carbon cycling along a rainfall in West Africa. In: Book of Abstracts, Tropical Biology and Sustainable Development, Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation (ATBC) Meeting, Antananarivo, Madagascar, 30 July – August 4, pp. 444. 
• Addo-Danso, S.D. and Prescott, C.E. (2017). Fine-root morphological traits in tropical forest ecosystems in relation to rainfall and temperature. In Book of Abstracts, 125th Anniversary Congress, IUFRO, Freiburg, Germany, 18-22 September, pp. 707. 
• Duah-Gyamfi, A., Adu-Bredu, S., Djagbletey, G.D, Addo-Danso, S., Moore, S., Malhi, Y. and Burton, A.J. (2018). Stand characteristics and species richness influence carbon storage differently among plant functional groups in pre and post-logging stands of a moist tropical forest in Ghana. In: Book of Abstracts, Catalysing Economic Development through Scientific Innovation, 1st CSIR-RSA Scientific Conference, Kumasi, Ghana, October 17, pp. 8-9.
• Addo-Danso, S.D. and Prescott, C.E. (2014). Methods for quantifying root dynamics for forest and woodland carbon studies- a review. International Forestry Review, 16: 164. Special Issue: Abstracts of the XXIV IUFRO World Congress: Sustaining Forests, Sustaining People: The Role of Research, Salt Lake City, USA, 5-9 October. 
• Foli, E., Kleine, M., Louis Bernard, C., Addo-Danso, S., Damnyag, L., Britwum Acquah, S. and Adejoba, O. (2014). Developing strategies for REDDES activities in selected pilot areas in Cameroon, Ghana and Nigeria. International Forestry Review, 16: 180. Special Issue: Abstracts of the XXIV IUFRO World Congress: Sustaining Forests, Sustaining People: The Role of Research, Salt Lake City, USA, 5-9 October. 
• Boakye, M., Adu-Bredu, S., Duah-Gyamfi, A., Addo-Danso, S. and Malhi, Y. (2014). Coarse woody debris stock in a moist semi-deciduous forest of Ghana. In Book of Abstracts, The Contribution of Forests to Ghana’s Economic Development, First National Forestry Conference, Kumasi, Ghana, 16-18 September, pp. 9. 
• Opoku-Ameyaw, A., Adu-Bredu, S., Addo-Danso, S.D., Duah-Gyamfi, A., Djagbletey, G., Moore, S. and Malhi, Y. (2014). Forest recovery from selected logging in a semi-deciduous forest in Ghana: analysis of soil respiration. In: Book of Abstracts, The Contribution of Forests to Ghana’s Economic Development, First National Forestry Conference, Kumasi, Ghana, 16-18 September, pp. 34-35. 
• Addo-Danso, S.D., Bosu, P.P., Nkrumah, E.E., Pelz, D.R., Coke, S.A. and Adu-Bredu, S. (2012). Mixed-species planting: is it the way forward for Nauclea diderrichii and Pericopsis elata plantations in Ghana? In: Book of Abstracts, Forest and Trees: Serving the People of Africa and the World, IUFRO-FORNESSA Regional Congress and ITTO/AFF Forest Policy Day, Nairobi, Kenya, 25-29 June, pp. 48. 
• Djagbletey, G., Bosu, P., Addo-Danso, S., Foli, E., Cobbinah, J., Bando, P. and Nkrumah, E. (2012). Assessment of coping and adaptation strategies to the effects of climate change in Offinso North and South Districts of Ashanti, Ghana. In: Book of Abstracts, Forest and Trees: Serving the People of Africa and the World, IUFRO-FORNESSA Regional Congress and ITTO/AFF Forest Policy Day, Nairobi, Kenya, 25-29 June, pp. 54. 
• Foli, E.G. and Addo-Danso, S. (2012). Enhancing adaptation of forests and people in Africa to climate change: Developing of a pilot case for a selected forest ecosystem in Ghana. In: Book of Abstracts, Forest and Trees: Serving the People of Africa and the World, IUFRO-FORNESSA Regional Congress and ITTO/AFF Forest Policy Day, Nairobi, Kenya, 25-29 June, pp. 179. 

Unedited Conference Papers/Poster Presentation:

• Beckmann-Wübbelt, A., Addo-Danso, S.D., Schmidtlein, S., Fassnacht, F., Armin, G. and Somidh, S. (2023). Quantifying ecosystem services from urban forests and their importance to increasing social-ecological resilience in Greater Kumasi, Ghana. Poster Presentation, European Forum on Urban Forestry, Kraków, Poland, 23-27 May.
• Foli, E.G., Addo-Danso, S.D. and Guuroh, R.T. (2019). Forest Landscape Restoration Implementation Progress on the Ground: Ghana Report. Poster Presentation, XXV IUFRO World Congress Side Event, Curitiba, Brazil, 29 September-5 October. 
• Ofori, D.A., Peprah, T., Addo-Danso, S.D., Cobbinah, J.R. and Simon, A.J. (2007). Allanblackia parviflora: From the jungle to the garden. Poster Presentation, Sixth Annual PROTA Regional and Country Officers Meeting, Kenya, 24-29 September.
• Addo-Danso, S.D. and Prescott, C.E. (2014). Methods for quantifying root dynamics for forest and woodland carbon studies- a review. Poster presentation, XXIII IUFRO World Congress, Utah, USA, 5-9 October. 

Theses:

• Addo-Danso, S.D. (2017). Biomass, productivity and allocation patterns in tropical old growth and logged-over forests in Ghana. PhD Thesis. Faculty of Forestry, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, pp. 256. Advisors: Prof. Cindy E. Prescott and Prof. Robert D. Guy 
• Addo-Danso, S.D. (2010). Survival and growth in a moist-semi deciduous forest in Ghana: comparison of monoculture and mixed-species plantations. MSc Thesis. Faculty of Forest and Environmental Science, Albert-Ludwigs Universität, Freiburg im Bresigau, Germany, pp. 156. Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Dieter R. Pelz and Dr. Seymour Arthur Coke
• Addo-Danso, S.D. (2005). Germination and the effects of different levels of inorganic fertilizer on the early growth performance of Tetrapleura tetraptera seedlings. BSc Thesis. Faculty of Renewable Natural Resources, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana, pp. 86. Supervisor: Dr. Seymour Arthur Coke

• A North-South Partnership for Climate Change Monitoring: The case of the canopy temperature project in Ghana. Presented at ODA Interdisciplinary Knowledge Exchange Workshop, University of Plymouth, UK, March 11-14, 2024.
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• Ecology of Bobiri Forest Reserve in Ghana. Presented at Network for Monitoring Canopy Temperature of Forests – netCTF Scientific Workshop, University of Plymouth, UK, March 14-17, 2023.
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• Using trait-based approach to assess the impacts of shade trees on core microbiome, soil fauna, and nutrient dynamics in cocoa agroforestry systems. Presented to Integrative Agroecology Lab. University of Toronto Scarborough, May 6, 2022.
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• Dry landscapes of Ghana: from degradation to restoration. International Workshop on Comparative Ecological Change and Restoration of Dryland Woodlands: identifying common problems and novel solutions in the Southern Cone of South America and the Sahel of Africa. Organized by the University of Chicago Center in Paris, September 22, 2021. 
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• Building capacity to monitor and understand forests response to climate change in Ghana. Global Challenge Research Fund Research into action – Research Festival. Organized by University of Plymouth, UK, September 29, 2021.
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• Nutrient content and cycling along a rainfall gradient in Ghana. Presented to Ecosystems Research Lab. University of Oxford, June 8, 2021.   

• 2024: Technical Session on “Restoring degraded riparian ecosystems: context matters”. To be organized during the International Union of Forest Research Organizations (IUFRO) World congress XXVI, Stockholm, Sweden. Organizers: Shalom D. Addo-Danso and Ernest G. Foli.
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• 2023: Level Up 2023. An annual capacity building workshop for National Service Personnel and Undergraduates, Kumasi, Ghana, 25 October, 2023. Convener and Speaker. 
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• 2022: Level Up 2022. Training workshop organized for National Service Personnel titled “Capacity Building Workshop After National Service, What Next?”, Kumasi, 22 August 2022. Convener and Speaker.   
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• 2014: Technical session on “Forests, Roots and Soil Carbon” at the International Union of Forest Research Organizations (IUFRO) World congress held at Salt Lake City, USA, 5-11 October 2014. Organizers: Cindy E. Prescott, Douglas Godbold, Helmisaari Helja-Sisko and Shalom D. Addo-Danso. 
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• 2011: Capacity building for Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation (REDD+) readiness and implementation in Ghana, Kumasi, Ghana, November 4, 2011. Organizer: Samuel K. Oppong, Shalom D. Addo-Danso, Stephen Adu-Bredu and Edward Obiaw.

• Founder, ASOR Mentoring Network (Organization involved in youth development in Ghana) and Convener, Level Up Series (A yearly forum where graduates engage and co-learn with entrepreneurs, academics and professionals toward a success career and education, https://www.myjoyonline.com/48-youth-in-kumasi-benefit-from-free-mentorship-by-asor-mentoring-network/).
• 2021-date: Editorial Board Member, Renewable Journal, a publication of the Faculty of Renewable Natural Resources, University of Ibadan. 
• 2021-date: Leader, Thematic Group on Forests, Soils and Water Interactions, Forestry Research Network for Sub-Saharan Africa (FORNESSA)  
• February-March 2021: Acting Head of Division, Forests and Climate Change Division, CSIR-Forestry Research Institute of Ghana.
• January 2021-January 2023: Vice Chairman, Staff Welfare Committee, CSIR-Forestry Research Institute of Ghana.
• 2019: Member, Local Organizing Committee, Ghana Institute of Foresters (GIF) Annual General Meeting
• August 2014-August 2017: MasterCard Foundation Graduate Mentorship Program, University of British Columbia
• October 2012-October 2013: Liaison Coordinator, Forestry Graduate Students Association (FGSA), University of British Columbia (UBC).
• October 2010-August 2012: Secretary, Research Staff Association (RSA), Ghana. Local Chapter, Forestry Research Institute of Ghana, of Council for Scientific and Industrial Research. 
• January 2008-October 2010: Assistant Secretary, Research Staff Association (RSA), Ghana. Local Chapter, Forestry Research Institute of Ghana, of Council for Scientific and Industrial Research. 
• 2003-2004: Editor, RENARSA FORUM-Yearly publication for Natural Resource Students Association (RENARSA), Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana
• 2018-2022: Involved in outreach programs on deforestation, climate change and general environmental issues to pupils at elementary schools level (https://www.myjoyonline.com/school-engaged-in-tree-planting-to-combat-climate-change/), (https://csir-forig.org.gh/component/edocman/school-s-outreach-manual?Itemid=0 and https://www.csir-forig.org.gh/SchoolOutreachManual-online%20version1_2.pdf). 

• January-August 2022: Research Associate, University of Toronto Scarborough, Ontario, Canada
• 2017-2018: Postdoctoral Fellowship, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
• 2016: Peter Rennie Memorial Award, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
• 2016-2017: Mary and David Macaree Graduate Fellowship, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
• 2012-2016: Four-Year Fellowship, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
• 2012-2015: DAAD PhD Scholarship, Germany (Declined)
• 2009: Tropenbos International (Ghana) Fellowship 
• 2008-2009: LANDESTIFTUNG Baden-Württemberg, Germany   
• 2010: Outstanding Grade, Albert-Ludwigs University, Freiburg, Germany 
• 2005: First Class Honours, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana

• Guest Editor, Research Topic, Global Excellence in Forest Science: Africa, Frontiers of Forests and Global Change, 2023-2024
• Guest Editor, Research Topic, Insights into Forest Ecosystems Belowground Processes and Functioning in a Changing Environment, Frontiers of Forests and Global Change, 2023 
• Guest Editor, Special Issue, Forests, Roots and Soil Carbon, Forest Ecology and Management Journal, Volume 359, pages 1-388 (January 2016)
• Served as adhoc reviewer for scientific journals: New Phytologist, Forest Ecology and Management, Plant and Soil, Science of the Total Environment, Forests, Ghana Journal of Forestry, Ecological Modelling, African Journal of Ecology, Land Degradation and Development, Natural Resource Modeling, Scientific African, Frontiers in Environmental Science, Annals of Forest Science, Forest Science, Journal of Tropical Forest Science, Peer J: Journal of Life and Environment, Environmental Challenges, Journal of Plant Ecology, Journal of Mountain Science, The Forestry Chronicle and IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science 

• ODA Interdisciplinary Knowledge Exchange Workshop. Organized by the Sustainable Earth Institute, University of Plymouth, UK, March 11-14, 2024.
• Establishing and Managing a Forest Restoration Project. Organized by Rainforest Builder Limited. 
• Doi Suthep Nature Conservation Centre, Chiang Mai, Thailand, June 12-16, 2023. 
• Network for Monitoring Canopy Temperature of Forests – netCTF Scientific Workshop. School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Plymouth, UK, March 14-17, 2023.
• 4th World Teak Conference: Global Teak Market: Challenges and Opportunities for Emerging Markets and Developing Economies. Organized by TEAKNET, Accra, Ghana, 5-8 September 2022.
• Commonwealth Science Conference, Sub-Saharan Africa Follow On Meeting. Organized by The Royal Society, UK, Accra, 14-16 March 2022.
• National Workshop on Inclusive and Evidence-based Approaches to Accelerate Land Restoration in Northern Ghana. Organized by World Vision and Catholic Relief Services, Accra, 20-21 October 2022.  
• International Workshop on Comparative Ecological Change and Restoration of Dryland Woodlands: identifying common problems and novel solutions in the Southern Cone of South America and the Sahel of Africa. Organized by The University of Chicago Center in Paris, 22 September 2021.  
• XXV IUFRO World Congress, Curitiba, Brazil, 29 September - 5 October 2019.
• Global Landscape Forum, Accra, Ghana, 29-30 October 2019. 
• 56th Annual Meeting of the Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation (ATBC), Antananarivo, Madagascar, 30 July – August 4 2019.
• Bamboo Stock and Carbon Assessment, Kumasi, Ghana, 27-30 May 2019.
• 3rd Beating Famine Conference in the Sahel, Bamako, Mali, 26-28 February 2019.
• IUFRO 125th Anniversary Congress, Freiburg, Germany, 18-22 September 2017. 
• 5th International EcoSummit, Montpellier, France, 29 August -1 September 2016. 
• XXIV IUFRO World Congress, Salt Lake City, USA, 5-9 October 2014. 
• IUFRO-FORNESSA Regional Congress and ITTO/AFF Forest Policy Day, Nairobi, Kenya, 25-29 June 2012. 
• Hands-on Capacity Building Training Programme on Designing and Preparation of National Greenhouse Gas Inventory as part of Monitoring Reporting Verification (MRV) System for NAMAs and REDD+ in Ghana, Kumasi, Ghana, 23-30 October 2011. 
• In-Country Training Workshop on the Agriculture and Land Use (ALU) National Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Inventory Software and other Inventory Tools, Asutuare, Ghana, 1-4 August 2011.
• Capacity Needs for REDD+ Implementation in Ghana Workshop, Kumasi, Ghana, 4 November 2011.
• International Training Program for Management of Ecosystem Research Station, 23 June - 22 July 2008. 

• Featured as an alumnus of UBC Forestry on Black History Month 2024. https://forestry.ubc.ca/news/alumni-profile-shalom-addo-danso/
• Featured in an article published in Futurum Careers (a free online resource and magazine).  https://futurumcareers.com/articles
• October 11, 2022: Joy TV (Multimedia Group), Involved in a paned discussion on climate change and Ghana’s participation in COP27. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwTVQFATo4I
• November 23, 2022: MyJoyonline.com (Multimedia Group) Interviewed for a Feature Report titled “How illegal mining, climate change rob cocoa farmers of arable land in Ghana”. https://www.myjoyonline.com/how-illegal-mining-climate-change-rob-cocoa-farmers-of-arable-land-in-ghana/
• June 2021: TV (TV 3 Network), interviewed live on Midday News to discuss the small-scale mining (galamsay) and other environmental issues during the World Environment Day Celebration on June 5. 
• March 2021: TV (TV3 Network), feature on a report titled “They don’t care! Owabi Dam is ‘dying slowly’. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGY3BWAYpWo and https://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/NewsArchive/They-don-t-care-Owabi-Dam-is-dying-slowly-1211389
• February 2019: TV (TV3 Network) interview on urban planning and green spaces in Ghana
• May 2012: Radio discussion on 91.5 Mercury FM, Kumasi, Ghana. Topic: Desertification in Ghana