University of Ghana: UG awarded £5.4m with partner universities to tackle global issues

Ghana's premier university has been selected among some elite universities on the continent to lead research in key issues facing the world.

The University of Ghana has been selected among a group of leading universities in Low and Middle-Income Countries from Ghana, Malawi and Kenya to benefit from award grant from the government of UK through its Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) Research Councils UK Collective Fund.

This grant is to help buttress the research capacity of the University across multiple disciplines to collectively solve the most pertinent global challenges of the world.

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A total sum of £225 Million as part of the initiative would be invested in research areas across 37 interdisciplinary projects to tackle issues in health, humanitarian crises, conflict, the environment, the economy, domestic violence amongst other fields.

The rationale behind the project is to acquire trusted knowledge in pressing issues facing developing countries to add up to established research in the UK to in addressing such challenges.

 In this regard, researchers from Ghana’s premier university would be partnering with their counterparts from Malawi and Kenya on a four (4) year multidisciplinary project worth £5.4 Million titled “Building Research Capacity for sustainable water and food security in drylands of sub-Saharan Africa (BRECcIA)”.

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Prof. Samuel Nii Ardey Codjoe of the Regional Institute for Population Studies (RIPS) and Dr. Mawuli Dzodzomenyo of the School of Public Health are Co-Investigators from the University of Ghana with Professor Justin Sheffield of the University of Southampton as the Principal Investigator on BRECcIA.

The research of these academics would be geared towards finding innovative ways to improve water and food security in their respective countries to end the over-dependence of farmers on the inconsistent rains.

BRECcIA creates an international platform for researchers to network with their colleagues in the UK and other parts of the world to reconcile the differences in their irrespective nations.

Other projects funded by the program would help improve the quality supply of water, fight diseases and increase the production and supply of food in represented countries.

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