Dr. Daniel Ako Tetteh

Academic Qualifications

  • PhD

  • MSc/MA/MEng/MPhil/MRes

  • BA/BSc/BEng                          

Role and Responsibility

  • Lecturing
  • Exams officer
  • Academic counsellor for level 100 students

 

Address

  • University of Education, Winneba Faculty of Technical Education, Kumasi. P. O. Box 1277, Kumasi.

Contact

  • Phone – 0243328069/0206383632
  • Email – danieltet2003@yahoo.com / datetteh@uew.eud.gh

Department

  • Department of Environmental Health and Sanitation Education

Faculty

  • FACULTY OF TECHNICAL EDUCATION

BRIEF BIOGRAPHY

Academic background

  1. PhD-University of Ghana,
  2. Mphil – University of Ghana,
  3. BSc-UDS,
  4. Certificate in General Agric- Ohawu Agricultural College
  5. SSCE Certificate- West African Secondary School

Previous positions-

  1. Dean of Students- Ohawu Agricultural College
  2. Head of Head of Department- Ohawu Agricultural College
  3. Hall Tutor- Ohawu Agricultural College
  4. Research coordinator- Ohawu Agricultural College
  5. Member of examination unit- Ohawu Agricultural college
  6. Chairman of estate and lands- Ohawu Agricultural College

Brief description of research interest

My research interests are in the areas of  natural resource management, environmental management, biodiversity conservation, nutrient cycling, above and below ground carbon stocks, soil and water quality and sustainable agriculture

TEACHING INTERESTS
  1. Community mobilization and health education
  2. Population,water and land use
  3. Ecology
  4. Domestic and public cleansing
  5. Behaviour change and advocacy in WASH
  6. Recreation and residential sanitation management
  7. Agroforestry systems
  8. Biodiversity conservation
RESEARCH INTERESTS AND SUPERVISION
  • Biodiversity conservation(plants, soil invertebrates, soil microfungi etc)
  • Nutrient cycling
  • Carbon stocks
  • Soil and water quality
  • Agroforestry systems
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

1.Asase. A & Tetteh, D.A (2010). The role of complex agroforestry systems in the conservation of forest tree diversity and structure in southeastern Ghana. Agroforest Syst (2010) 79:355–368, DOI 10.1007/s10457-010-9311-1.

2. Alex Asase & Daniel A. Tetteh (2016) Tree diversity, carbon stocks, and soil nutrients in cocoa-dominated and mixed food crops agroforestry systems compared to natural forest in southeast Ghana, Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems, 40:1, 96-113, DOI:0.1080/21683565.2015.1110223.

3.Tetteh,D.A & Asase,A(2016).Socioeconomic profile and farm management practices of smallholder cocoa farmers in three cocoa producing districts in Southwestern Ghana. African Journal of Agricultural Research

4. Tetteh D.A, Asase A. Ofori-Frimpong K , Attuquayefio D.(2017). Effect of cocoa farming intensification on biodiversity and ecosystem properties in southern Ghana.

5.Tetteh, D.A & Obeng.D(2021). Cocoa pods and seeds characteristics of different hybrid varieties in Southeastern Ghana. Ecology and Evolutionary Biology– paper under review.

6.Tetteh D.A(2021). Litter fall, leaf litter decomposition, soil microfungi and nutrient content in cocoa and food crop agroforest farmlands in Southeastern Ghana.  Ecology and Evolutionary Biology– paper under review                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              

OTHER INTEREST

Fertilizer trials, soil physical and chemical parameters