FAO Forestry country profiles - institutions
Ghana
Government and public organizations
Ministry responsible for forestry matters
| Name: | Forest Services Division |
| URL to homepage: | http://www.fcghana.com/index.htm |
Forest administration structure – level of authority
The Forestry Commission is an implementing wing under the Ministry of Lands, Forestry and Mines.
The Parliament (Legislature) has a Committee on Lands and Forestry to champion issues on Forestry in Parliamentary.
Number and qualification of staff in headquarters and in decentralized offices
| Year: 2006 | |||||
Staff |
HQ |
Decentralized |
Total |
% > 50 years old |
% of female |
Staff with university degrees (PhD, MSc and BSc) |
10 |
290 |
300 |
NA |
NA |
Technicians (mid-level degrees) |
8 |
256 |
264 |
- |
- |
Forest guards/Law enforcement officers |
2 |
1763 |
1765 |
- |
- |
Forestry education institutions
| Name: | Institute of Renewable Natural Resources |
| Abbreviation: | IRNR |
| URL to homepage: | http://www.knust.edu.gh/academics/institutes/irnr/irnr.index.htm |
Graduated students at different levels of education
| Year: - | ||||||||
Name of Institution |
Level of Education provided | |||||||
Techn. |
% F |
BSc |
% F |
MSc |
% F |
PhD |
% F |
|
Faculty of Renewable natural Resources |
- |
- |
2004-2006: |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
Faculty of Forest Resources Technology |
2000+ |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
Forestry research institution(s)/centre(s)
| Name: | Animal Research Institute |
| Abbreviation: | ARI |
| URL to homepage: | http://www.csir.org.gh/ari.html |
| Name: | Council for Scientific and Industrial Research |
| Abbreviation: | CSIR |
| URL to homepage: | http://www.csir.org.gh/ |
| Name: | Crops Research Institute |
| Abbreviation: | CRI |
| URL to homepage: | http://www.csir.org.gh/cri.html |
| Name: | Forestry Research Institute of Ghana |
| Abbreviation: | FORIG |
| URL to homepage: | http://www2.forig.org/ |
| Name: | School of Agriculture |
| Name: | Soil Research Institute |
| Abbreviation: | SRI |
| URL to homepage: | http://www.csir.org.gh/sri.html |
| Name: | University of Ghana |
| URL to homepage: | http://www.ug.edu.gh/ |
Staff of forestry research institution(s)/centre(s)
| Year: | ||||
Name of institution/centre |
Number and qualification of research staff |
|||
Technical staff |
BSc |
MSc |
PhD |
|
Forestry Research Institute of Ghana (FORIG) |
NA |
3 |
22 |
17 |
Research programmes
Name of institutions/centres |
Main research areas |
FORIG |
Silviculture, Entomology, Forest botany, Forest ecology, Seed technology, Mensuration / Statistics, Genetics, Wood Science & Technology, Wood Products Chemistry, Policy & Socio-Economics and Marketing and Information Science. |
Forestry extension and outreach services
| Name: | Ministry of Food and Agriculture |
Other public institutions related to forestry
| Name: | Ministry of Food and Agriculture |
| Abbreviation: | MoFA |