DEPARTMENT FOR BUSINESS, ENERGY & INDUSTRIAL STRATEGY

Vivid Peru: Remote mapping and socio-economic valuation tool to support planning and implementation in land-use interventions in Peru

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Description

The project addresses two of Peru’s most acute development challenges: reducing the rural population in poverty (currently 3 million), and preventing deforestation from its current rate of 250,000 hectares per year. The two challenges are closely linked in a number of ways. Unregulated land use is a major cause of both, facilitating encroachment on forests by the subsistence farmers who are responsible for 75% of losses, while also stemming flows of investment that could improve their productivity and incomes. However, solutions to the problems often require balancing trade-offs between them: for example, new infrastructure that can improve livelihoods might also accelerate deforestation. The overall objective of this project is to contribute to efforts to reduce poverty and protect forests by developing satellite-based data tools that help policymakers to understand and address these linkages. The tools developed by the project, and the engagement with government in the adoption and application of the tools, will assist decision-making in four key areas of policy activity: land use (‘zoning’) regulation; infrastructure provision; land permitting; and sustainable production and irrigation. The project tools support this aim by providing three layers of information: • Land use inventory that classifies and differentiates physical surface cover types. • Economic-ecosystem valuation tool that improves zoning rules and regulations, prioritises planned investments, and focuses enforcement and incentive mechanisms to improve effectiveness. This will integrate the land-use inventory with other economic information to map the value of land under different uses and the risk land faces of unauthorised exploitation. • Plot-level mapping and technical specifications to improve titling, enforcement of land-use rules, supporting programmes and technical assistance. This will map areas identified as high-risk in greater detail using Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) surveys, providing information on forest thinning needed to enforce restrictions on deforestation and support certification of sustainable production.

Objectives

Using a range of publicly available satellite imagery, Vivid will develop economic valuation and small-plot mapping tools for the Peruvian region of San Martin. The project will use high resolution Earth Observation images and digital elevation mapping in deforestation-prone areas to enable the implementation and certification of sustainable agricultural production and to reduce barriers to small-scale irrigation systems. This will improve the income of subsistence farmers.

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Location

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Peru

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