Associate Professor Lars Buur, Department of Social Sciences and Business, Roskilde University, identifies two major challenges to Danish development research: First, research findings to be shared as knowledge support for Danish development cooperation is left with an ever-smaller audience, as specialized staff in DANIDA is cut back. Second, research capacity building in Global South countries is hampered by a lack of local funding for universities. Thus, South Ph.D. students being trained by Danish university partners have very limited options to continue their research and they become dependent instead of independent.