CURRENT PROJECT
RFS-SFCC - Reimagining Food Systems for Climate Change Adaptation, Mitigation, and Social Justice
Partnership for Advancing Sustainable Blue Economy Education and Research (PASBLUE)
PUBLICATIONS
Refereed Journal Articles
Bennett, NJ, López de la Lama, R., Araos, F., Ayilu, RK, Barua, P., Blythe, JL, Childs, J., Das, J., De la Puente, S., Ertör, I., Ertör-Akyazi, P., Farbin, T., Gerhardinger, LC, Glaser, M., Govan, H., Guasch, A., Le Billon, P., Lopes, PFM, Marschke, M., … Sumaila, UR (2026). A call to action to support and safeguard ocean defenders. Npj Ocean Sustainability , 5 (1), 48. https://doi.org/10.1038/s44183-026-00233-x
Bleischwitz, R., Ayilu, RK, & Schlüter, A. (2026). Partnerships and development cooperation: supporting implementation of SDG 14 at the international level. In The Elgar Companion to Ocean Governance and the Sustainable Development Goals (pp. 186-211). Edward Elgar Publishing . https://doi.org/10.4337/9781803923574.00020
Nyiawung, R.A. & Ayilu, R.K. (2025). Social Innovation in Small-Scale Blue Food Systems: A Case Study of Oyster Harvesters in The Gambia, West Africa. Environmental Policy and Governance 1–13.
https://doi.org/10.1002/eet.70024
Allegretti, A., Ayilu, RK , Okafor-Yarwood, IM, Standen, S., & Hicks, CC (2025). Beyond growth? Understanding the grassroots entrepreneurship of women fish processors in Ghana. World Development Perspectives , 38 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wdp.2025.100687.
Tenakwah, ES, Boadu, G., Tenakwah, EJ, Parzakonis, M., Brady, M., Kansiime, P., Said, S., Eyaa, S., Ayilu, RK, Radavoi, C. and Berman, A. (2025). Assessment in the age of artificial intelligence: Interdisciplinary analysis of ChatGPT response to higher education assessment tasks. Knowledge Management and E-Learning , 17 (1). https://doi.org/10.34105/j.kmel.2025.17.001
Ayilu, RK , Fabinyi, M., Barclay, K., & Bawa, MA (2023). Industrial and small-scale fisheries relations in Ghana: A political ecology perspective on blue economy exclusion. Journal of Rural Studies , 102. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrurstud.2023.103085.
Ayilu , R.K. (2023). Limits to blue economy: challenges to accessing fishing livelihoods in Ghana's port communities. Maritime Studies , 22 (2), 11. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40152-023-00302-8
Ayilu, RK, Fabinyi, M., Barclay, K., & Bawa, MA (2023). Blue economy: industrialization and coastal fishing livelihoods in Ghana. Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries , 33 (3), 801-818. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11160-022-09749-0
Ayilu, RK , Fabinyi, M., & Barclay, K. (2022). Small-scale fisheries in the blue economy: Review of scholarly papers and multilateral documents. Ocean & Coastal Management , 216. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ocecoaman.2021.105982
Ayilu, R.K. & Nyiawung, R.A. (2022). Illuminating informal cross-border trade in processed small pelagic fish in West Africa. Maritime Studies , pp.1-14. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40152-022-00284-z
Nyiawung, RA, Ayilu, RK , Suh, NN, Ngwang, NN, Varnie, F., & Loring, PA (2022). COVID-19 and small-scale fisheries in Africa: Impacts on livelihoods and the fish value chain in Cameroon and Liberia. Marine Policy , 141. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2022.105104.
Aboagye, RG, Seidu, AA, Hagan Jr, JE, Frimpong, JB, Budu, E., Adu, C., Ayilu, RK, & Ahinkorah, BO, (2021). A multi-country analysis of the prevalence and factors associated with bullying victimization among in-school adolescents in sub-Saharan Africa: evidence from the global school-based health survey. BMC psychiatry , 21 (1), 325. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12888-021-03337-5
Ayilu RK, Antwi-Asare TO, Abbey EN, & Chimatiro S. (2018). Socioeconomic Factors Influencing Profitability of International Artisanal Cross Border Fish Trade in Parts of West Africa. AU-IBAR, Bulletin of Animal Health and Production , 2018. pp 19-33
Non-Refereed Articles and Book Chapters
Nyiawung, R.A. & Ayilu, R.K. (2024). "We're scared of the future": Struggles between small-scale fishers and foreign industrial trawlers in Limbe, Cameroon. N. Bennett & R. Lopez de la Lama (Eds.). The Ocean Defenders Project . Online at https://oceandefendersproject.org
Ayilu, R.K., & Appiah, S. (2020). Fish traders and processors network: Enhancing trade and market access for small-scale fisheries in the West Central Gulf of Guinea. Securing sustainable small-scale fisheries, 71. FAO , 652, 71.
Ayilu RK, Antwi-Asare TO, Anoh P, Tall A, Aboya N, Chimatiro S, & Dedi S (2016). Informal artisanal fish trade in West Africa: Improving cross-border trade. Penang, Malaysia: WorldFish. Program Brief : 2016-37.
Book in Progress
Ayilu, RK, Nyiawung, RA, & Mbatha. P. (nd). Small-Scale Fisheries in Africa: Status, Sustainability and Blue Governance. MARE Publication Series. Springer Nature Publishing