Research interest

• Food Security
• Agriculture Innovation
• Urban Agriculture
• Biochar
• Africa and Latin America
• Sustainable Agriculture

Research Project

Publications

• N. Dittrich (2018): Urban and Peri-Urban Agriculture in Bamenda: A Policy Narrative (with D. Bertrand Njoh, T. Feldt, C. Seeger, H. Karg, E. Gawum, A. Witte, R. van Veenhuizen), for SHUMAS, UrbanFoodPlus, RUAF Foundation, and the Bamenda Multi-Stakeholder Platform, 48 p.

Seminars, Workshops and Conferences

• Urban Food Security, Workshop, Ruhr University Bochum, 2. July 2018.
• "Tropentage", Bonn University, 20.-22. September 2017.
• "Hidden Hunger", Hohenheim University, 20.-22. March 2017.
• "How to certify Cacao", GIZ Workshop for local farmers in Altamira, September 2014, Brazil.
• "Dialogo com extractivitsas e politica", Brasília, October 2013, Brazil.
• "Desenvolvimento Sustentável na Amazônia Brasiliera",  Belém, October 2013, Brazil.
• Nachhaltige Entwicklung im brasilianischen Amazonasgebiet. Transdiziplinärer Dialog zwischen Wissenschaft und Politik - Perspektiven neuer Formate der wissenschaftlichen Kooperation zwischen Deutschand und Brasilien. Berlin, 09 - 10 November 2013.

Teaching

• Methods of Empirical Social Research: How to Conduct a Field Survey (MADM, Winter Term 2018/19)
• Seminar 'Public Sector Reform' (MADM, Winter Term 2016/17; Summer Term 2017; Summer Term 2018)
• Seminar 'Current Topics of Development Policy' (M.Sc. WiWi, Winter Term 16/17, Summer Term 2017)

Mentoring

• Megos Desalegne Gelagay (2018). The Impact of Irrigation Technology on Household Food Security: The Case of Autonomous Adaptation Project (PAA) of Ethiopia in Adami-Tullu Jido-Kombolcha.
• Stefani Rackes da Silva (2018). The support of social capital in coping with shocks and stresses faced by Venezulan asylum seekers in Brazil.

• Wibke Fasel (2017). Climate-smart villiages in Africa.