Mrs. Joyce Afua Sarpong Haleegoah, PhD
Name: Joyce Afua Sarpong Haleegoah
Tel: +233 24 405 1228
Email: haleegoahj@yahoo.co.uk
Nationality: Ghanaian
Station: Fumesua
Qualification: PhD, Sociology
Current Grade: Principal Research Scientist
Research Interest
Gender mainstreaming, gender policy development and other aspects of gender in agriculture including gender analysis in research planning and implementation and women in agricultural development; qualitative and participatory research methodologies; participatory approaches to development-oriented research, currently referred to as Innovative agricultural research for development (IAR4D); qualitative data analysis, food security issues; and local food transformation.
Research Experience
Dr Haleegoah has conducted several research projects by herself and in collaboration with other scientists locally and internationally. Her achievements include about 21 refereed journal articles in her research interest areas and in collaboration with other scientists, a gender handbook, and several training manuals to her credit. She has helped build the capacity of many men and women farmers and extension officers in several aspects of gender in agricultural development and farmer-based organisations business development. Administratively she has coordinated and led several research projects and programs, led the Institute’s Ladies Club as Chairperson, and held leadership positions in the Institute’s Credit Union Board for several years rising to the chairperson position for many years. Joyce is the Gender Focal Person, leading the Gender Desk Committee of the Institute and serve on the Accelerating Impacts of CGIAR Climate Research for Africa (AICCRA) project, CSIR-CRI. She has served as the Head of the Resource Crop Management and Socioeconomics and the Socio-Economics and Biometrics (SEB) Divisions of the Institute. Currently, she is the head of the sociology section of the SEB Division.
Gender issues in grain, legume and root and tuber crops production,
Rice Seed Spread – Agya Amoh – Study,
Impact of Changing Land Cover on the Production and Ecological Functions of Vegetation in inland valleys in West Africa,
Rice Seed systems in Ghana and Nerica adoption studies in Ghana,
Factors Influencing Development Trajectories of Lowlands in West Africa,
Bambara Survey on Producers, Marketers, Consumers and Processors in the Transition (Brong Ahafo) and Guinea Savanna Two (Upper East) Regions of Ghana,
Post-Harvest Handling, Processing, Marketing Trends and Routes of Plantains and Bananas in Ghana, Farmer Participation in Groundnut Varietal Selection,
Tomatoes Pesticide use studies in Agogo,
Cassava Traits Preferences of Women and Men in Nigeria,
Impact of Oil Palm-related activities on Women’s Empowerment in Ghana,
CAY Seed project, Gender awareness creation and sensitisation of project communities,
Ex-ante assessment of gender differentiated variety and trait preferences of yam producing households in high yam growing region of Ghana.
Brief Bio:
Dr. Mrs. Joyce Afua Sarpong Haleegoah joined the Crops Research Institute as a Rural Sociologist at the level of Assistant Research Officer (currently designated as Technologist). She was the first Rural Sociologist to be employed by the Institute at a time that the Institute found it necessary to mainstream gender in the research activities in 1991. She is currently a Senior Research Scientist with specialized interest in gender in agriculture, participatory research and local food systems and experienced in the training of agriculture extension agents and farmers on gender mainstreaming and analysis in agriculture.
Joyce she holds a PhD in Sociology from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Kumasi in addition to an MA in Sociology from the University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada and BA Sociology/ Psychology from the University of Ghana, Legon, Accra, Ghana.
She has worked with various teams on projects and programmes in areas such as Gender issues in grain, legume and root and tuber crops production, Rice Seed Spread – Agya Amoh – Study, Impact of Changing Land Cover on the Production and Ecological Functions of Vegetation in inland valleys in West Africa; Rice Seed systems in Ghana and Nerica adoption studies in Ghana. Others are studies on the Factors Influencing Development Trajectories of Lowlands in West Africa, Bambara Survey on Producers, Marketers, Consumers and Processors in the Transition (Brong Ahafo) and Guinea Savanna Two (Upper East) Regions of Ghana, Post-Harvest Handling, Processing, Marketing Trends and Routes of Plantains and Bananas in Ghana, Farmer Participation in Groundnut Varietal Selection, Tomatoes Pesticide use studies in Agogo, cassava traits preferences of women and men in Nigeria, and Impact of oil palm-related activities on women’s empowerment in Ghana. She has been involved in the CAY Seed project, under the gender component as a gender coordinator for Ghana and Nigeria, a project that sought to assist farmers in the positive selection of yam seeds in Ghana and Nigeria. Recently she is involved in a collaborative research on Ex-ante assessment of gender differentiated variety and trait preferences of yam producing households in high yam growing region of Ghana
Dr. (Mrs.) Haleegoah has served in several administrative positions including the Acting and substantive head of division of the Resource and Crops Management/Socioeconomics of the Institute. She is currently the head of the Socio-Economics and Biometrics Division (KimONeillPsychic).
Her research and training has exposed her to many parts of the world and has published a number of peer reviewed publications in both local and international journals. She is affiliated to the Sociological Association of Ghana and the CSIR Research Science Association. She is married and has four children.
