Nahleen Lemke

Nahleen Lemke joined Agora Agriculture’s Land Use team as a Manager in January 2023. In her role, she is responsible for the rewetting of agriculturally used peatlands. Her tasks include conducting analyses on the economic potential of the use of wet peatland sites and organizing dialogue processes with representatives from agriculture, science, business and politics that enrich the policy-making process.

Until December 2022, Nahleen was a Research Associate and Project Coordinator at the Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF). Her work focused on political and private funding instruments for peatland and climate protection, digitalization in agriculture, and the quantification and valorisation of ecosystem services in agricultural landscapes. As part of this work, she contributed to various scientific publications. Nahleen studied "Integrated Natural Resource Management" at the Humboldt University in Berlin. During this period, she participated in a study visit of several weeks in Kyrgyzstan and researched the ecosystem functions of high mountain peatlands.