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Dr. Evelyn Asante-Yeboah

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Dr. Evelyn Asante-Yeboah Fellow

PostDoc Sustainable Landscape Development

Mail: evelyn.asante-yeboah@geo.uni-halle.de Tel: +49 (0)345 55 26046 Room: H4 2.21 Consultation hours: by appointment

Focus Areas:

Modelling of social-ecological systems, Ghana, agriculture, food security, ecosystem services

Research

She is a researcher in sustainable landscape development with expertise in smallholder farming systems, food security and ecosystem services. Her research focuses on rural development, land-use change, natural resource management, and sustainable food systems. She applies interdisciplinary methods, including remote sensing, GIS and GISCAME, social surveys, and statistical analysis.

Her work spans agricultural landscapes in Ghana and Germany, where she has integrated farmers’ and stakeholders’ perceptions on land use changes into landscape and ecosystem service assessments and modelling to support resilience and sustainable land management. Through this work, she contributes to the development of evidence-based approaches for enhancing ecosystem services and food security.

Biography

WORK EXPERIENCE

  • Since June 2026: Researcher at the Department for Sustainable Landscapes Development in the project NetCDA (European Academic Network for Capacity Development in Climate Change Adaptations in Africa)
  • March 2023-Feb 2026: Researcher at the Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF), on the CLEAR project (Collaborative landscape planning for enhanced agrobiodiversity and resilience), Germany
  • October 2019 – December 2024: Doctoral researcher at the Department for Sustainable Landscapes Development, Institute of Geosciences and Geography, Martin Luther University, Halle (Saale), Germany
  • June 2015 – August 2018: Spatial and Environmental planning specialist on the United States Forest Service-International program managed project in Ghana (Coastal Sustainable landscapes project), Ghana
  • Jan. 2013-April 2013: Guest Researcher on Agro-food systems at UNFAO, Italy
  • May 2012-December 2013: Research fellow under the Alexander von Humbolt International Climate Fellowship, Institute of soil science and site ecology, Technical University of Dresden, Germany
  • May 2010-March 2011: Forester with the Resource management support centre of the Ghana Forestry commission, Ghana
  • June 2007-Septermber 2008: Project assistant with the Tropenbos Ghana Program (Forestry international NGO), Ghana

 

EDUCATION

  • Oct. 2019-Dec. 2024: Dissertation at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Institute of Geosciences and Geography, Department of Sustainable Landscape Development, Title: ‘Towards multifunctional and sustainable land-use of mosaic landscapes: an integrated socio-spatial assessment of land-use/land-cover transitions in a mosaic landscape of southwestern Ghana”
  • Sept. 2008 – March 2010: M.Sc. Geoinformation Science for Natural Resource Management, University of Twente, The Netherlands
  • Oct. 2002 – May 2007: Bsc. in Natural Resource Management, from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Ghana

Publications

Asante-Yeboah, E., Ashiagbor, G., Asubonteng, K., Sieber, S., Mensah, J.C., Fürst, C., 2022. Analyzing Variations in Size and Intensities in Land-use Dynamics for Sustainable Land-use Management: A Case of the Coastal Landscapes of Southwestern Ghana. Land 11, 815. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/land11060815

Asante-Yeboah, E., Koo, H., Ros-Tonen, M.A.F., Sieber, S., Fürst, C., 2024. Participatory and Spatially Explicit Assessment to Envision the Future of Land-Use/Land-Cover Change Scenarios on Selected Ecosystem Services in Southwestern Ghana. Environmental Management. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00267-024-01943-z

Asante-Yeboah, E., Koo, H., Sieber, S., Fürst, C., 2024. Designing mosaic landscapes for sustainable outcome: Evaluating land-use options on ecosystem service provisioning in southwestern Ghana. Journal of Environmental Management 353, 120127. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2024.120127