Alesia Ofori Dedaa

Profile

Passionate about poverty and rural development on the continent, Alesia’s career includes working in various capacities with government and non-governmental organisations in Tanzania, Malawi, Ghana, Cameroon and Zambia. Currently, she works with the water@leeds as a Project Assistant on the ‘Top 100 Global Water Research Questions’ Project and also in the Water Knowledge Exchange Hub (a collaboration project between Global Water Partnership -GWP-Tanzania and water@leeds). 

Research Interest / PhD Project

Alesia’s research interest is broadly in the Politics of Natural Resource Management, specifically Agro-forestry, Conservation and Water Governance in Sub-Saharan Africa. Her PhD research takes a political ecology lens to explore the complex politics embedded in the water-mining nexus in Ghana. 

Teaching Experience

Alesia has taught Natural resource Management courses when she worked as a Teaching Assistant in the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology. Taught 3^rd and 4^th Undergraduate courses like Range and Fire Ecology, Wildlife and Range Utilisation, Qualitative Research and supervising Final year Undergraduate Thesis. Her teaching philosophy is grounded in developing a safe community for effective learning and participatory dialogue and one that encourages courageous and bold learning.

Education

Masters in Sustainable Forest Management – University of British Columbia (MasterCard Foundation Graduate Scholar 2015/2016)

BSc Natural Resource Management – Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (Overall Best Graduating Student in the Faculty of Renewable Natural Resources Management) 2014

Online Presence 

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Research interests

List of Publications

• Ofori, A.D., Mdee, A. and Van Alstine, J., 2021. Politics on display: The realities of artisanal mining formalisation in Ghana. The Extractive Industries and Society, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.exis.2021.101014.
• Ofori A.D., Mdee A. (2021) Integrated Water Resource Management. In: Leal Filho W., Azul A.M., Brandli L., Lange Salvia A., Wall T. (eds) Clean Water and Sanitation. Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-70061-8_4-1 
• Anna Mdee, Alesia Ofori, Michael Chasukwa & Simon Manda (2020) Neither sustainable nor inclusive: a political economy of agricultural policy and livelihoods in Malawi, Tanzania and Zambia, The Journal of Peasant Studies, DOI: 10.1080/03066150.2019.1708724
• Ofori, A., Mdee, A. and Kongo, V., 2020. What are the most important future water research questions in East Africa? https://doi.org/10.5518/100/23 
• Mdee, A., Chasukwa, M., Dzimwe, D., Dedaa, A.O. and Djurfeldt, A.A., 2018. A Political Economy of Inclusion in Agricultural Intensification.
• Mdee, A., Manda, S., Dedaa, A.O. and Djurfeldt, A.A., 2018. A Political Economy of Inclusive Agricultural Intensification.

Blog Posts

• “Lands selling like hot cakes”- Village Politics and Development disorientation – Convivial Thinking 

Research Interest 

• Political Ecology and Economy
• Water Governance
• Artisanal Small scale Mining 
• Agricultural Livelihoods
• Gender and Development 

Qualifications

• Masters of Sustainable Forest Management- University of British Columbia' 16
• BSc Natural Resource Management- Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology'14

Research groups and institutes

• Centre for African Studies
• Centre for Global Development