DERG researchers collaborate in various ways with a number of national and international research organisations and development environments. They include among others:

• African Economic Research Consortium (AERC) with headquarters in Nairobi and its network of African and international researchers

• Danish Institute of International Studies (DIIS), Copenhagen
• Danida

• Institute of Food and Resource Economics, The Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University

• Development research centres at the Universities of California, Berkeley, Gothenburg, London, Nottingham, Oxford, Sheffield, Stockholm, Warwick

• Trinity College Dublin

• European Association of Development Research and Training Institutions (EADI)

• Department of Economics, University of Copenhagen

• Institute of Development Studies (IDS)

• Institute of Social Studies (ISS), Haag

• International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), Washington, D.C.

• Nordic Institute of African Studies

• Nordic Institute of Asian Studies