Josephine is a Ph.D. candidate with a DAAD scholarship under the International PhD Programme in Agricultural Economics (IPPAE) at the Chair of Social and Institutional Change in Agricultural Development at the University of Hohenheim. Her research focuses on Investigating the influence of regulatory frameworks in the nexus between cocoa farming and small-scale gold mining in Ghana, particularly, its implications for small holder farming.
Prior to assuming her Ph.D. candidacy, Josephine was a Programmes’ Development Advisor at the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA) where she specialized in training needs assessment and executive training programme development for advanced and middle managers in corporate organizations from all sectors including agriculture. She later worked as an adjunct Lecturer in the same university where she taught Public Administration and Business Administration and Management. Previously, Josephine had worked in the banking sector with the German founded ProCredit Savings and Loans Company as a Credit Analyst for agricultural and small business financing. Subsequently she became a Manager of a business and agro-lending branch of the company, where she managed both the credit and deposit portfolios. Josephine holds an M.Sc. in Agricultural Economics from the University of Hohenheim where she received a scholarship from KAAD. She also has a B.Sc. in Agriculture from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in Ghana.
