Dr. Rosalien Jezeer

 Programme coordinator Green Livelihoods Alliance (GLA) and Fire-smart landscape governance

 Rosalien is the Programme Coordinator of Fire-Smart Landscape Governance and the Green Livelihoods Alliance (GLA). In these roles, she focuses on the sustainable management of tropical forests and promoting practices that mitigate climate change and safeguard local livelihoods across South America, Africa, and Asia.

Rosalien is an expert in sustainable land development and local livelihoods in tropical rural regions. She has ample experience with agro-commodities, including topics as agroforestry, deforestation free value chains and developing alternative production models. Her PhD research at the Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development (Utrecht University), focused on the challenges and opportunities of agroforestry systems to reconciling local livelihoods and conservation of biodiversity and other ecosystem services.

As a researcher, her publications range from sustainable agricultural practices like agroforestry and their impact on livelihoods, biodiversity, and the ecosystem, particularly in Peru, to tropical wildfire management.

In recent years, Rosalien has developed a special focus on integrated fire management in the tropics, working to reduce wildfire risks through sustainable landscape approaches. 

Contact: rosalien.jezeer@tropenbos.org