Abdul-Rauf Malimanga Alhassan

His current area of research includes irrigation and agricultural water management, climate-smart agriculture, climate change adaptation, and mitigation, circular and bio-economy.

JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS
1. Alhassan, A. R. M. (2024). Impact of mulching and planting time on spring-wheat (Triticum aestivum) growth: A combined field experiment and empirical modeling approach. Open Agriculture, 9(1), 20220242. https://doi.org/10.1515/opag-2022-0242
2. Alhassan, A. R. M., Limantol, A. M., Larbi, I., Akolaa, R. A., & Akolgo, G. A. (2023). Analyses of crop water use and environmental performance of small private irrigation along the white Volta basin of Northern Ghana. Heliyon, 9(8). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2023.e19181
3. Alhassan, A. R. M., Yang, C., Ma, W., & Li, G. (2021). Influence of conservation tillage on Greenhouse gas fluxes and crop productivity in spring-wheat agroecosystems on the Loess Plateau of China. PeerJ, 9, e11064. https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11064.
4. Amichiatchi, N. J. M. C., Hounkpe, J., Soro, G. E., Khadijat, O. O., Larbi, I., Limantol, A. M., Alhassan, A.R. M., Bi, T. A. G., & Lawin, A. E. (2023). Analysis of past and projected changes in extreme precipitation indices in some watersheds in Cote DIvoire. Journal of Water and Climate Change. https://doi.org/10.2166/wcc.2023.365.
5. Dotse, S. Q., Larbi, I., Limantol, A. M., Asare-Nuamah, P., Frimpong, L. K., Alhassan, A. R. M., … & Ayisi-Addo, A. K. (2023). Rainfall Projections from Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 6 in the Volta River Basin: Implications on Achieving Sustainable Development. Sustainability, 15(2), 1472. https://doi.org/10.3390/su15021472.
6. Limantol, A.M., Larbi, I., Dotse, S.Q., Okafor, G.C., Asare-Nuamah, P., Frimpong, L.K., Alhassan, A.R.M., Angmor, E., Joel Premkumar, J.P., Lutterodt, G. and Asiamah, T.A., (2023). An increase in temperature under the shared socioeconomic scenarios in the Volta River Basin, West Africa: implications for economic development. Journal of Water and Climate Change, 14(8), pp.2808-2824. https://doi.org/10.2166/wcc.2023.141.
7. Fudjoe, S. K., Li, L., Jiang, Y., Alhassan, A. R. M., Xie, J., Anwar, S., … & Xie, L. (2022). Impact of soil amendments on nitrous oxide emissions and the associated denitrifying communities in a semi-arid environment. Frontiers in Microbiology, 13. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2022.905157
8. Akolgo, G. A., Uba, F., Opoku, R., Tweneboah-Koduah, S., Alhassan, A. R. M., Anokye, E. G., … & Nunoo, E. (2022). Energy analysis of poultry housing in Ghana using artificial neural networks. Scientific African, 17, e01313. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sciaf.2022.e01313
9. Akolgo, G. A., Quaye, D. N. D., Alhassan, A. R. M., Asosega, K. A., Nunoo, E., Akimsah Jedaiah, O. A., … & Atta-Darkwa, T. (2022). Status of Agricultural Mechanization in Ghana: Insight from Farmers Perception, Population, and Nonagricultural Sector Growth. Advances in Agriculture, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1155/2022/2094276
10. Wu, J., Ma, W., Li, G., Alhassan, A. R. M., Wang, H., & Chen, G. (2020). Vegetation degradation along the water gradient leads to soil active organic carbon loss in Gahai wetland. Ecological Engineering, 145, 105666. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoleng.2019.105666
11. Alhassan, A. R. M., Ma, W., Li, G., Jiang, Z., Wu, J., & Chen, G. (2018). Response of soil organic carbon to vegetation degradation along a moisture gradient in a wet meadow on the Qinghai Tibet Plateau. Ecology and evolution, 8(23), 11999-12010. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.4656
12. Ma, W., Alhassan, A. R. M., Wang, Y., Li, G., Wang, H., & Zhao, J. (2018). Greenhouse gas emissions as influenced by wetland vegetation degradation along a moisture gradient on the eastern Qinghai-Tibet Plateau of North-West China. Nutrient Cycling in Agroecosystems, 112, 335-354. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10705-018-9950-6
13. Bruce, B. P., Alhassan, A. R. M., Dou, X., & Gong, D. (2019). Profitability and Water Productivity of Small Scale Irrigation Schemes in Northern Ghana. Journal of Agricultural Science, 11(3). https://doi.org/10.5539/jas.v11n3p22

Book Chapters
14. Amankwaa-Yeboah, P., Yeboah, S., Alhassan, A.-R. M., Osei, G., Amponsah, W., Laboan, B. M., Adu-Dankwa, E. S., & Dodd, I. C. (2023). Paradigms Shaping the Adoption of Irrigation Technologies in Ghana. Handbook of Irrigation Hydrology and Management, 363–388. https://doi.org/10.1201/9781003353928-25

15. Yeboah, S., Oteng-Darko, P., Adomako J., Alhassan A.R.M. 2020. Biochar Application for Improved Resource Use and Environmental Quality. In Applications of Biochar for Environmental Safety, 93. Ahmed A. Abdelhafez and Mohammed H. H. Abbas (Eds). ISBN: 978-1-78985-896-9. https://doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.92427

Conferences Attended
1. Sustainable Development Conference 2021- Organized by University of Environment and Sustainable Development & Frederich Ebert Stiftung, Akosombo, Ghana. (22nd Jul, 2021-25th Jul, 2021)

2. Re-opening the bin-waste, economy, culture, and society conference 2021 (Online)-Organized by the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, 10th Jun, 2021-12th Jun, 2021.
Agricultural Engineer, Ministry of Food and Agriculture (MoFA), Tamale (Sep 2008 – Dec 2020)

He started his career as an Agricultural Engineer at the Ministry of Food and Agriculture (MoFA), Ghana; worked as a project engineer on the Project for Sustainable Development of Rainfed Lowland Rice Production funded by the Japanese government through Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA); Worked with the RECIRCULATE project at the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR)-Crop Research Institute, funded by the Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) which was implemented by various partners including CSIR-Ghana, Lancaster University-UK, Lancaster University-Ghana, and other selected universities across Africa and he was the lead for the implementation of experiments assessing the effects of soil microbial dynamics on greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions under water-saving irrigation technologies in Ghanaian rice cultivars.
Dr Alhassan has won several scholarships including the Netherlands fellowship programme (NUFFIC) and the Gansu Agricultural University President Scholarship for his second and terminal degrees respectively. He has a number of publications in international journals and has also peer-reviewed manuscripts for some journals.

Development Studies Association (UK) – Member

(1) Jospong Environmental Sanitation Research Fund (JESRF)-2022-2024. Design and performance evaluation of a small-scale waste-to-energy technology for sustainable waste management and energy generation.