Peter Narh is an Environmental Social Scientist at the Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana. He researches African land and natural resources conservation and governance. Currently, his research focuses on social outcomes of global capital investments in African natural resources in Ghana and Kenya. He holds a PhD in Development Studies (Environmental governance option) from the University of Bayreuth in Germany.
PhD in Development Studies (Environmental governance specialization), University of Bayreuth, Germany
MPhil in Development Studies, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Ghana
BA in Geography and Resource Development, University of Ghana
- Environmental infrastructures and technologies
- Environmental conservation
- Land conflict and land sustainability
- Social mobilization for conservation
Peter Narh currently is involved in the following projects:
- Personal research: Conservation infrastructures and outcomes in different ecologies and socioeconomic systems - particular reference to sites in Kenya and Ghana.
- Member of research team: Transregional research on the changing nature of precarious work in Africa and the Arab region, Project is funded by Carnegie Corporation of New York.
- Member of research team: Domestic Security Implications of UN Peacekeeping i(D-SIP), Project is funded by the Danish Institute for International Studies.
- Member of research team: Oil and Gas implications for urban space in Sekondi-Takoradi, Ghana. Project is funded by Ghana Gas Company.
Narh, Peter (2021 accepted; forthcoming). Towards a socially oriented agricultural model for Africa’s renaissance. Journal of Black Studies, USA. https://journals.sagepub.com/home/jbs
Narh, Peter (2021 accepted; forthcoming) Contestations and resistance in the sugarcane economy in Mumias, Kenya. Cadernos de Estudos Africanos, a journal published by the Centro de Estudos Internacionais of ISCTE-IUL, Lisbon. https://journals.openedition.org/cea/
Narh, Peter (2021). Traversing state, agribusinesses, and farmers’ land discourse in Kenyan commercial intensive agriculture’ Chapter contribution to book, title, “Social outcomes of land reforms in post-Cold War Africa: Community, chief and the state”. Springer
Undergraduate level
- UGRC220, Appropriate Technologies for Development in Africa, UG City campus
- UGRC220, Appropriate Technologies for Development in Africa, UG Main campus
Graduate level
- AFST601, Research Methods
- AFST602, Advanced Research Methods
- AFST727, Topics in Research Methods
- AFST712, Water Resources, Livelihoods, and Development