Tsatsu Adogla-Bessa has 25 years of experience in agricultural research for development in Africa. His areas of specialization are range and forage science, ruminant livestock production and livestock agroforestry applications. He is particularly interested in use of fodder trees and crop residues for enhanced livestock production. He is currently employed at the Livestock & Poultry Research Centre-Legon, at the School of Agriculture, University of Ghana as a Senior Research Fellow. Before joining the University of Ghana, he was a lecturer at the Department of Animal Science and Production, Botswana College of Agriculture (University of Botswana) from 1992 to 1998. Earlier in his professional career, he was a temporary Lecturer at the Department of Agriculture, University of Reading for the 1990/91 academic year.
Tsatsu holds a BSc in Agriculture (1980) with specialisation in animal science from the University of Ghana, Legon, Accra. His MSc in Animal Production (1986) and PhD agriculture (1990) with specialization in forage science are both from the University of Reading, UK. He is also trained in, adult teaching and livestock agro-forestry applications. He was a visiting scientist as a Stapledon scholar at Reading University, UK, in June –September 2002 where he trained in the Reading gas fermentation techniques.
His research for development interests are focused on agro pastoralists on rangelands, these include livestock agro-forestry applications especially use of fodder trees in livestock production systems and integrated crop-livestock production systems using crop residues for dry season feed of ruminants.
He has been the head of his Centre for a total of ten years, a Hall Tutor of Commonwealth Hall for ten years, has served on the Commonwealth Hall Council from 2007-2011 and also served on the University Academic Board from 2004 to date.
Tsatsu has managed two European Union Edulink funded projects in Ghana as well as one University of Ghana technology transfer project. He has been a collaborator in several other projects at the School of Agriculture of his University. He has experience in capacity building and supervision of graduate students. He has organized national and international workshops and conferences and has visited 12 countries in Africa and Europe. He is a member of three professional associations in Ghana and has authored/co-authored 35 publications.