Selected Publications

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Email: mkansanga@gwu.edu

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United States

1. Kansanga, M. M., Bezner Kerr, R., Lupafya, E., Dakishoni, L., & Luginaah, I. (2021). Does participatory farmer-to-farmer training improve the adoption of sustainable land management practices? Land Use Policy, 108, 105477. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2021.105477 
2. Kansanga, M. M., Sano, Y., Bayor, I., Braimah, J. A., Nunbogu, A. M., & Luginaah, I. (2021). Determinants of food insecurity among elderly people: findings from the Canadian Community Health Survey. Ageing & Society, 1–15. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0144686X20002081
3. Kansanga, M. M., Dinko, H.D., Nyantakyi-Frimpong, H., Arku, G., & Luginaah, I. (2021). Scalar politics and black-markets: the political ecology of illegal rosewood logging in Ghana. Geoforum, 119, 83-89. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2020.12.020
4. Mohammed, K., Batung, E., Kansanga, M. M., Nyantakyi-Frimpong, H., & Luginaah, I. (2021). Livelihood diversification strategies and resilience to climate change in semi-arid northern Ghana. Climatic Change, 164(3–4), 53. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10584-021-03034-y
5. Kansanga, M. M., Ahmed, A., Kuusaana, E. D., Oteng-Ababio, M., & Luginaah, I. (2020). Of waste facility siting and relational geographies of place: Peri-urban landfills, community resistance and the politics of land control in Ghana. Land Use Policy, 96, 104674. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2020.104674 
6. Kansanga, M. M., Mkandawire, P., Kuuire V., & Luginaah I. (2020). Agricultural mechanization, environmental degradation, and gendered livelihood implications in northern Ghana. Land Degradation & Development. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/ldr.3490
7. Kansanga, M. M., Luginaah, I., Kerr, R. B., Dakishoni, L., & Lupafya, E. (2020). Determinants of smallholder farmers’ adoption of short-term and long-term sustainable land management practices. Renewable Agriculture and Food Systems, 1-13. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S1742170520000289
8. Kansanga, M. M., Kangmennaang, J., Kerr, R. B., Lupafya, E., Dakishoni, L., & Luginaah, I. (2020). Agroecology and household production diversity and dietary diversity: Evidence from a five-year agroecological intervention in rural Malawi. Social Science & Medicine, 113550. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2020.113550
9. Kpienbaareh, D., Kansanga, M. M., Konkor, I., & Luginaah, I. (2020). The Rise of the Fourth Estate: The Media, Environmental Policy, and the Fight against Illegal Mining in Ghana. Environmental Communication, 1-16. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/17524032.2020.1799050
10. Kansanga, M. M., & Luginaah, I. (2019). Agrarian livelihoods under siege: Carbon forestry, tenure constraints and the rise of capitalist forest enclosures in Ghana. World Development, 113, 131-142. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2018.09.002.
11. Kansanga, M. M., Arku, G., & Luginaah, I. (2019). Powers of exclusion and counter-exclusion: The political ecology of ethno-territorial customary land boundary conflicts in Ghana. Land Use Policy, 86, 12-22. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2019.04.031.
12. Kansanga, M. M., Andersen, P., Kpienbaareh, D., Mason-Renton, S., Atuoye, K., Sano, Y., & Luginaah, I. (2019). Traditional agriculture in transition: examining the impacts of agricultural modernization on smallholder farming in Ghana under the new Green Revolution. International Journal of Sustainable Development & World Ecology, 1-14. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/13504509.2018.1491429.
13. Kansanga, M. M., Antabe, R., Sano, Y., Mason-Renton, S., & Luginaah, I. (2019). A feminist political ecology of smallholder agricultural mechanization and evolving gendered on-farm labour dynamics in Ghana. Gender, Technology and Development. (Accepted and in production). https://doi.org/10.1080/09718524.2019.1687799.
14. Kansanga, M. M., Andersen, P., Atuoye, K., & Mason-Renton, S. (2018). Contested commons: Agricultural modernization, tenure ambiguities and intra-familial land grabbing in Ghana. Land Use Policy, 75, 215-224. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2018.03.047.
15. Kpienbaareh, D., Kansanga, M. M., & Luginaah, I. Examining the potential of open source remote sensing for building effective decision support systems for precision agriculture in resource-poor settings. GeoJournal, 1-17. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10708-018-9932-x.
16. Kansanga, M. M., (2017). Who you know and when you plough? Social capital and agricultural mechanization under the new green revolution in Ghana. International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability, 15(6), 708-723. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/14735903.2017.1399515.
17. Kansanga, M. M., Atuoye, K., & Luginaah, I. (2017). Same problem, conflicting ‘truths’: rethinking the missing links in forest degradation narrativization in Ghana. African Geographical Review, 1-13. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/19376812.2017.1415814.