Project Summary
Countries: Peru
Delivery Partner: International Center for Research in Agroforestry (ICRAF)
Project Partners: Bangor University, Universidad Nacional Toribio Rodríguez de Mendoza de Amazonas (UNTRM), UNIVERSIDAD CIENTÍFICA DEL SUR (UCSUR), Sociedad Peruana de Derecho Ambiental (SPDA), Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement (CIRAD)
Principal Investigator: Dr. Valentina Robiglio, Senior Land Use System Specialist, ICRAF
Challenge
FABRIKs advances Amazon landscape transformation by demonstrating that biodiversity-friendly fallow management can simultaneously drive climate resilience, biodiversity gains, and poverty reduction at system, ecosystem, and market levels. Led by CIFOR-ICRAF, this transdisciplinary project addresses biodiversity loss in Peru’s Amazon and develops replicable approaches for sustainable land use across tropical regions.
Applying socio-ecological systems science, FABRIKs co-develops evidence-based fallow management protocols, policy frameworks, and market incentives to recognize the value of ecosystem services. An innovative knowledge hub engages a broad coalition of stakeholders—technical specialists, authorities, value chain actors, local communities, and policy makers—to facilitate collaborative learning and scale up nature-based solutions.
The project directly addresses GCBC priorities by showing how biodiverse fallows can transform tropical systems into naturepositive, climate-resilient solutions that reduce poverty and conserve Amazon biodiversity. Participatory processes ensure integration of local knowledge and multi-actor implementation, producing sustainable models for regional transformation.
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Photo Credits
1. A smallholder explains how he uses his fallow (“purma”) land in Ucayali, Peru, Ernesto Benavides/Landscape Alliance
2. A smallholder working on his fallow (“purma”) land in Ucayali, Peru, Ernesto Benavides/Landscape Alliance
3. A plantation of fast-growing timber trees established on fallow land in Ucayali, Peru, Ernesto Benavides/Landscape Alliance
4. A tree in a fallow (“purma”) area on a smallholder farm in Ucayali, Peru, Ernesto Benavides/Landscape Alliance
5. A fallow (“purma”) area on a smallholder farm in Ucayali, Peru, Ernesto Benavides/Landscape Alliance
