I work at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), in Rome, on strengthening tenure governance in policy, legal and institutional frameworks to improve tenure governance to achieve food security, poverty eradication, improved livelihoods, and sustainable socio-economic development. Since thirty years I focus in my work on land using different perspectives: governance, tenure, use, cover, policy, planning and degradation; environmental change (land dynamics); sustainable management of natural resources; integrated landscape management. I have worked, and work, in many countries in Africa, Asia and Europe.

I hold a Ph.D. in Land Dynamics as a result of land reform from Wageningen University in The Netherlands.