Restoration approach
Forest plantations for ecosystem services and associated non-timber businesses
- Natural reforestation
- Plantations for timber forest business
- Agroforestry and silvopastoral systems
- Promotion of environmentally sound technologies that will add value
Resources
Program Budget 0089: Reduction of Agricultural Land Degradation – Program Budge…
Ambition letter (Sharepoint link)
National Strategy for the Restoration of Ecosystems and Degraded Forest Lands (ProREST) Period 2021 - 2030
Related initiatives
Bonn Challenge
Initiative 20x20
NY Declaration on Forests
Objectives
Peru joined Initiative 20x20 in 2014 with a pledge by the Directorate General of Agricultural Environmental Affairs (Dirección General de Asuntos Ambientales Agrarios) to restore 3.2 million hectares of degraded land.
Of these 3.2 million hectares, 2 million are to be restored through sustainable commercial exploitation under Peru’s National Forest Service (SERFOR). To this end, SERFOR promotes the national pact Madera Legal, the Forestry Development Fund (Fondo Fomento Forestal), and the National Program for the Promotion of Timber Plantations (Program Nacional de Promoción de Plantaciones Forestales con Fines Maderables).
The remaining 1.2 million ha is degraded land to be recovered for productive use under the Directorate General of Agricultural Environmental Affairs (DGAAA). The 1.2 million ha of degraded land to be restored by DGAAA can be further divided by the major type of degradation to be reversed:
- 390,000 ha – water erosion
- 200,000 ha – overgrazing
- 155,000 ha – soil compaction
- 155,000 ha – agrochemical contamination
- 300,000 ha – salinization
The national restoration strategy, Programa Nacional de Recuperación de Áreas Degradadas (PNRAD), is currently under development and is expected to be launched in 2018.
Financing mechanisms
The National Fund for Protected Areas (FONANPE) promotes sustainable forestry in Peru and is financed by a GEF grant and government funds. The National Program for the Conservation of Forests for the Mitigation of Climate Change (Programa Nacional de Conservación de Bosques para la Mitigación del Cambio Climático) also provides incentives for forest conservation.
In 2014, Norway and Germany promised to pay Peru $400 million USD for projects to stop and reduce deforestation in the Amazon to reduce emissions.
