Eunice Adwoa Sarpong
Eunice Adwoa Sarpong is a DecLaRe Fellow and a PhD candidate at the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, George-August-University Göttingen. Eunice studied Integrated Development Studies with a major in Social and Development Administration at the University for Development Studies in Ghana. Eunice worked with smallholder farmers in the Brong Ahafo Region of Ghana to improve agricultural practices and food security through radio campaigns and farm visits. Eunice has gained expertise in teaching and working in international development programs aimed at poverty reduction, child advocacy, environmental protection, and gender participation in development. Eunice's current study focuses on local innovations and how land reforms affect people's land use, rights, and tenure security in Northern Benin (West Africa) and the impact of such reforms on agriculture and food security. Eunice's research interest includes land rights, land use, tenure security, land governance, agriculture, local people’s knowledge, sustainable livelihoods and rural development.
Regional focus
Ghana, Benin (West Africa)
Thematic focus
Land use and rights, Land tenure security, Local Innovations and Sustainable Land Management practices from an ethnographic perspective.
Current and former research project
DecLaRe - Decision support for Strengthening land resilience in the face of global challenges.
Former and current field studies
Former and current field studies
- Local Innovations for resilient agriculture: an ethnographic study of land management practices in Northern Benin (2022 –)
- Religion and birth control, analyzing the perspectives of local women in the Upper West Region, Ghana (2013)
- Community profiling project showing the developmental problems and potentials of rural communities in the Upper East Region, Ghana (2010, 2011)