This document introduces the Approach Protection-Production (EPP) for Peru, a strategy designed to achieve zero net deforestation by the year 2021 while simultaneously improving the livelihoods of small farmers. Recognizing that the agricultural practices, inefficient small-scale producers in a situation of poverty are a major driver of deforestation, the EPP aims to transform this vicious circle into a virtuous circle of environmental protection and effective agricultural production profitable in degraded lands.
The framework consists of four elements of fundamental and inter-related:
- Engage and coordinate the private sector, government agencies, and producers through a platform of multiple actors.
- Protect and monitor the forest through sound systems for land use planning, governance, policy implementation and monitoring, with the support of various actors.
- To formalize the land-use rights, especially in areas where forests are adjacent to agricultural areas, to encourage the investment and conservation.
- To make agriculture more productive and sustainable, which implies strategies and incentives for the investment in a systematic agriculture in the lands of existing or degraded.
This includes group to the producers, to provide enhanced services related to the conservation of the forest and increasing the value of sustainable products.
This holistic approach stresses the importance of aligning efforts of the public and private sectors, and to ensure funding is significant to scale sustainable agriculture and forest protection
