Peru

CIFOR-ICRAF has worked in Peru since 2011, with its regional office based in Lima. We have built long-standing partnerships with government at various scales, academia and civil society, including the Ministry of the Environment (MINAM), the National Forest and Wild Fauna Service (SERFOR), the National Organisation of Andean and Amazonian Women (ONAMIAP), Amazon and several other key partners.

Our work supports government efforts to meet global and national biodiversity targets, and deforestation and restoration national goals. We also work with local communities, developing tools for the conservation and recovery of Amazonian lands and the strengthening of livelihoods.

Research areas include forest landscape restoration, climate mitigation and adaptation, REDD+, peatland ecosystems and greenhouse gas measurements, coffee and cocoa value chains, tenure and decentralization, inclusive and gender-responsive policy, and extensive work on the promotion of agroforestry concessions, co-learning processes for the inclusion of agroforestry with key crops, co-design of agroforestry systems, trees on farms for biodiversity and biodiverse and successional agroforestry systems.

COUNTRY FOCAL POINT

Peter Cronkleton

Peru Country Coordinator

Key outcomes

Peruvian legislation on restoration through tree plantations (2017) and technical norms for multiple forest use in Brazil nut concessions (2016)
Official definition of agroforestry in Peru through support to the Ministry of Agrarian Development and Irrigation
Government of Peru in creating conditions for the successful scaling of agroforestry concessions
Peru’s upcoming national restoration strategy, Programa Nacional de Recuperación de Áreas Degradadas (PNRAD) and membership in the science advisory committee
Revision of norms for granting forest concessions in the Maya Biosphere Reserve, Petén, Guatemala
Recognition of peatlands in Peru’s climate change policy
Partnered with Gov organizations to develop tools to improve inclusion in Multi-stakeholder forums for natural protected areas management in Peru
Partnered with indigenous women organization to develop tools to improve inclusion of women in land governance in Peru
Contributed to the new national restoration strategy of Peru and part of the science advisory committee
Partnerships with government organizations to develop tools to improve inclusion in multistakeholder forums for management of natural protected areas in Peru
Partnered with indigenous women organization to develop tools to improve inclusion of women in land governance in Peru
Contribution to Ministry of Agrarian Development and Irrigation for construction of official Agroforestry definition in Peru.
Contribution to the formulation of state restoration policies in the Federal District and Minas Gerais