She has worked as a consultant on numerous natural resource management and environmental protection programmes in Central and South America, Africa and Asia. She has extensive experience in the environmental aspects of forest management as well as in local (community) forest management. Through her studies, research and work,she has gained a sound understanding of the complex interface between the management of natural resources and land in general and society. She has specialized is the uses of non-timber forest products as alternatives, as well as their role in food security at household level. In addition, she has also concentrated on the social, economic and political aspects of common property resource management.