Fact sheet: assessing smallholder farmers and forest dynamics in the Peruvian Amazon

Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI), German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE), World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF)

In this document we provide an overview of smallholder farmers in the Amazon region of Peru. Smallholders are a key part of the forested landscape, but information about their activities and their relation to forests is scant and fragmented. Using official socio-economic statistics, as well as remote sensing-derived forest cover maps, we provide a general characterization of smallholder farmers in the Amazon region, and follow with a discussion of their relationship to and implications for deforestation. Our objective is that this factsheet becomes a useful input for discussion for the strategic planning of Peru’s forest sector.