Social and Institutional Change in Agricultural Development

Josephine Montford

Biography

Josephine Montford is a Ph.D. candidate in the DAAD-funded IPPAE programme at the Chair of Social and Institutional Change in Agricultural Development at the University of Hohenheim.

She holds an M.Sc. in Agricultural Economics from the same university and a B.Sc. in Agriculture from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in Ghana.

Before joining the IPPAE programme, Josephine worked as an Assistant Registrar and an Adjunct Lecturer at the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration.

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PhD Research project: Interlinkages between cocoa farming and gold mining

In the last years, the proliferation of small-scale gold mining has caused a rampant conversion of cocoa farms in Ghana. However, there can be both trade-offs and synergies between gold mining and cocoa farming. The research project aims to better understand linkages between gold mining and cocoa production and how they affect the sustainability and future of cocoa farmers. This project aims to understand the governance dynamics of this relationship in a bid to inform policy discourses toward a more favorable outcome.