

I am a postdoctoral researcher in human geography with an interest in the intersection of smallholder agriculture, rural development, poverty analysis and remote sensing and GIS applications in the Global South. These interests have crystallized from my background in geography and resource development at the bachelor’s level at the University of Ghana and development geography at the master’s level at the University of Oslo. My doctoral research sought to come to grips with the conundrum of smallholder agricultural productivity gaps in rain-fed family farms in Ghana. The dissertation utilized an interdisciplinary approach and innovative tools to measure crop yields and highlight shortfalls of current approaches to yield measurement. Continuing in the same vein of using innovations to tackle age-old problems, my postdoctoral work, funded by Riksbankens Jubileumsfond, seeks to mix household surveys, satellite imagery and machine learning in human development studies and poverty analysis. We have recently completed a study which uses human experts to estimate welfare levels from ultra-high-resolution satellite imagery from all DHS cluster locations in Tanzania. Going forward, we will compare the performance of these human experts and machine learning algorithms and try to understand what humans can learn from the documented superhuman performance of deep learning algorithms in this domain of research.
Teaching responsibilities
My main teaching interests centre around Geographic Information Systems and research methods. Currently, I mainly serve as the course convener and teacher for the 15-credit course titled GIS for the Social Science. Being a free-standing course, the course is often taken by students at both Masters and PhD levels. I also teach the GIS component of the methods course Theory of Science for Development Research on the LUMID programme. At the bachelor’s level, I am a member of the teaching staff of the Theory of Science and Research Methods where I am responsible for the quantitative research design, methods, and data analysis. I also enjoy supervising students in the BIDS programme.
Publikationer
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A review of machine learning and satellite imagery for poverty prediction: Implications for development research and applications
Ola Hall, Francis Dompae, Ibrahim Wahab, Fred Mawunyo Dzanku
(2023) Journal of International Development
Artikel i tidskrift"The maize is the cost of the farming, and cassava is our profit": Smallholders' perceptions and attitudes to poor crop patches in the Eastern region of Ghana
Ibrahim Wahab, Ola Hall, Magnus Jirström
(2022) Agriculture & Food Security, 11
Artikel i tidskriftThe use of drones in the spatial social sciences
Ola Hall, Ibrahim Wahab
(2021) Drones, 5
Artikel i tidskriftThe rise of medium-scale farms in the northern Savannah of Ghana : Farmland invasion or an inclusive commercialised agricultural revolution?
Ibrahim Wahab, Joseph Yaro, Gloria Afful-Mensah, Michael Ben Awen-Nam
(2021) APRA Working Paper Series
Working paperThe Drivers of Medium-Scale Farms and the Emerging Synergies and Contradictions Among Socially-Differentiated Farmers in Northern Ghana
Joseph Yaro, Ibrahim Wahab, Gloria Afful-Mensah, Michael Ben Awen-Nam
(2021) APRA Working Papers, 71
Working paperIn-season plot area loss and implications for yield estimation in smallholder rainfed farming systems at the village level in Sub-Saharan Africa
Ibrahim Wahab
(2020) GeoJournal, 85 p.1553-1572
Artikel i tidskriftA bird's eye-view of smallholder productivity : Current measurement shortfalls, farmer perceptions and rationality on rainfed family farms in Ghana
Ibrahim Wahab
(2020)
DoktorsavhandlingAn integrated approach to unravelling smallholder yield levels : The case of small family farms, eastern region, Ghana
Ibrahim Wahab, Magnus Jirström, Ola Hall
(2020) Agriculture, 10
Artikel i tidskriftRemote sensing of yields : Application of UAV imagery-derived ndvi for estimating maize vigor and yields in complex farming systems in Sub-Saharan Africa
Ibrahim Wahab, Ola Hall, Magnus Jirström
(2018) Drones, 2
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