Areas of professional focus at CDE
- Global change and its impacts
- Sustainable land management and desertification
- Climate change adaptation and mitigation
- Land acquisitions and investments in agriculture
- Sustainable rural development
- Agricultural economics
- Food security
Projects
- Land Matrix Initiative
- World Overview of Conservation Approaches and Technologies (WOCAT)
- African Food, Agriculture, Land and Natural Resource Dynamics, in the context of global agro-food-energy system changes – AFGROLAND
- R4D Food Sustainability
- UNCCD Backstopping Mandate SDC
Further professional interests
- Macroeconomic policies and their links to sustainable use of natural resources
- Renewable energies
- Agricultural extension
- Moderation and facilitation
- Learning processes
Field experience
Indonesia, Madagascar, Kenya, Cameroon, Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Georgia, Central America, Bolivia, Bulgaria
Languages
German, English, French, Bahasa Indonesia, Spanish
