Prof. Sylvester Nsobire Ayambila

Prof. Sylvester N. Ayambila is an Associate Professor of Agricultural Economics at the University for Development Studies (UDS), Tamale, Ghana. He holds a PhD in Development Studies (University of Ghana), MPhil. Agricultural Administration (University of Ghana) and B. Sc. Agricultural Technology (UDS, Tamale). He is currently the Head of the Department of Applied Economics at the School of Economics, UDS, Tamale. He has worked in UDS since 2004 and has occupied several positions and served in many committees in the university. He is also the Applied Research and Grants Coordinator of the West African Centre for Water, Irrigation and Sustainable Agriculture (WACWISA), a World Bank Centre of Excellence. Some of the recent projects he coordinated include; Feed the Future Innovations Laboratory for Small Scale Irrigation (ILSSI), a USAID Project from 2016 to 2019 and GIZ Green People’s Energy Project from 2021 to 2022.  He has special interest in local technologies and innovations development and assessment, gender, food and agribusiness value chains, marketing and resource efficiency. He has undertaken many research and collaborations for many organisations and programmes which include; CIAT, IUCN, ACDEP, IWMI, FAO, IFDC, USAID, AGRA, WFP and the EU Horizon 2020. He is one of the consultants that evaluated Ghana’s Medium Term Agriculture Sector Development Plans (METASIP I&II), review of the Food and Agriculture Sector Development Policy (FASDEP II) and the development of a successor agriculture sector policy (FASDEP III). He is an active member of the Ghana Association of Agricultural Economists (GAAE). Nso

Tamale, Ghana

Current professional activity

  • Associate Professor and Head of Department – University for Development Studies, Tamale, Ghana

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Tamale
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Ghana

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English
speaking: 9
writing: 9

Skills and Interests in Keywords

Entrepreneurship, Enterprise development, agribusiness, gender and business managment •

Publications and Projects

Publications

Determinants of non-farm micro and small enterprise participation in rural Ghana

The non-farm sector is critical for the socio-economic development of Ghana especially the ruralpoor. This paper analyses the determinants of individual participation in non-farm enterprises andthe intensity of participation. The paper used the Economic Growth Centre (EGC)/Institute ofStatistical, Social and...