RESEARCH
DEH strongly believes that development-oriented state of the art research is a prerequisite to understanding and developing sustainable systems and programs. Together with its partners, DEH has developed competences in the following:
- - Applied/participatory research
- - Food systems analysis
- - Climate change effects, mitigation, coping, adaptation and resilience building
- - Disaster management
- - Forest governance and sustainable forest management
- - Impact assessments
- - Gender
- - Policy analysis
- - (Non) migration studies
Development for Humanity strives to maintain collaborative research agreements, and carry out research projects discussed with relevant partners. For instance, DEH is a member of the Scientific Council on Tropical and Subtropical Agricultural Research –ATSAF (www.atsaf.de).
One of its staffs is a Member of the exclusive Emerald Literati Network of authors, editors and researchers in academic publishing (http://www.emeraldinsight.com/authors/literati/index.htm ) and Peer reviewer for important Journals such as the Journal of Natural Resources Policy Research (http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/19390459.asp), and SN Social Science.
Data collection from Lake Nyos disaster victims in Cameroon (2010)
Some of its members are lecturers in academic institutes such as the Universities of Buea, Bamenda- Bamenda University of Science and Technology, and the Pan African institute for Development, Cameroon; as well as the Technical Universities of Dresden and Munich, Germany.