Osei-Agyeman Yeboah is a Professor of International Trade and serves as the Director of the L.C. Cooper Jr. International Trade Center at the North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University. The center, especially through its international projects, has developed trade and economic development models addressing food security, poverty, trade, and climate change adaptation and mitigation with a special focus on youth and gender in various countries, including Cambodia and the Philippines from 2009 to 2014, and in Ghana from 2012 to present. Yeboah and partners from the Savannah Agricultural Research Institute (SARI) of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), Ghana, have been working on USDA-FAS-funded Food Security Projects on peanut, soybean, maize, cowpeas, and other horticultural crops' value chains using climate-smart agricultural innovations. Yeboah holds a PhD in Agricultural Trade/Environmental Economics from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 1998.
Research Interests: International Trade; International Marketing; Environmental Economics and Policy; Production Economics; Agricultural Cooperatives; and Economic Development.
Osei-Agyeman Yeboah is a Professor of International Trade and serves as the Director of the L.C. Cooper Jr. International Trade Center at the North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University. The center, especially through its international projects, has developed trade and economic development models addressing food security, poverty, trade, and climate change adaptation and mitigation with a special focus on youth and gender in various countries, including Cambodia and the Philippines from 2009 to 2014, and in Ghana from 2012 to present. Yeboah and partners from the Savannah Agricultural Research Institute (SARI) of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), Ghana, have been working on USDA-FAS-funded Food Security Projects on peanut, soybean, maize, cowpeas, and other horticultural crops' value chains using climate-smart agricultural innovations. Yeboah holds a PhD in Agricultural Trade/Environmental Economics from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 1998.
Research Interests: International Trade; International Marketing; Environmental Economics and Policy; Production Economics; Agricultural Cooperatives; and Economic Development.