Sustainable livelihoods, deforestation, and supply chains: Analysis of environmental and socio-economic data from the frontier of the Peruvian Amazon

该项目通过协助秘鲁非政府组织CIMA （Centro de Conservación, Investigación y Manejo de Areas Naturales）分析和管理其社会经济和地理空间数据，支持秘鲁亚马逊西部边缘农业社区的可持续经济发展和福利。通过分析大量关于农户和农业供应链的二手数据，以及提供该地区森林砍伐模式证据的地理空间数据，该项目旨在更好地了解当前的做法、挑战和机遇，以提高该地区的农业可持续性。它将审查为通报和监测可持续农村生计和森林保护水平所需的数据，并设法了解如何鼓励和促进可持续农业（例如公平贸易和有机认证；农林业计划）。重要的是，该项目将开发标准化的数据分析流程，以帮助支持CIMA在保护森林的同时提高当地社区生活质量的目标。由于CIMA需要报告其保护工作如何造福当地人民，该项目将支持开发基于社区需求和愿望的数据管理方法，并帮助开发一种全面的方法来了解生计、供应链和森林砍伐之间的联系。拟议的项目将包括收集、清理和整合非政府组织持有的数据，并开发一个平台，使CIMA可以长期存储和方便地访问这些数据。这将支持非政府组织的项目监测和评估职责，并向资助机构、影响投资者和政策框架（如联合国可持续发展目标和联合国生物多样性公约）报告。遵循相互学习和透明的原则，所有数据和分析将由项目团队的所有成员共享，研究团队和CIMA之间将定期举行在线会议，以确保数据平台的开发与用户的输入一起进行，并确保项目满足CIMA的需求。该项目基于研究团队和当地合作伙伴CIMA之间的牢固关系，他们已经成功地在ESRC IAA初步基金上合作。苏塞克斯大学的研究小组将在秘鲁组织一系列的三个参与性讲习班（项目启动、能力建设、产出和影响讲习班），项目的受益者和利益相关者包括地方和国家政府机构。这将有助于确保该项目支持秘鲁的国家可持续发展愿景，并为秘鲁的地方和国家政策提供信息。此外，该项目对致力于森林、供应链和当地生计交叉领域的大型国际实践团体（包括企业、民间社会、资助机构和政府）具有重要意义；这需要强有力的证据作为行动依据。研究团队是跨学科的，汇集了环境科学家、人文地理学家、可持续供应链和绩效指标专家。然后，研究成果还将为这些不同的学术界提供信息，从而更好地了解农村发展、农产品生产（包括出口到全球市场的农产品生产）和环境保护之间的影响。

This project supports sustainable economic development and welfare in farming communities in the Western edge of the Peruvian Amazon, by assisting a non-governmental organisation (NGO) in Peru called CIMA (Centro de Conservación, Investigación y Manejo de Areas Naturales) to analyse and manage its socio-economic and geospatial data. Through analysis of extensive secondary data on farmer households and agricultural supply chains, alongside geospatial data providing evidence of patterns of deforestation in the landscape, the project aims to gain a better understanding of current practices, challenges, and opportunities for improving agricultural sustainability in the region. It will examine the data needed to inform and monitor the levels of sustainable rural livelihoods and forest conservation in the landscape, and seek to understand how sustainable agriculture (e.g. Fair Trade and organic certifications; agroforestry schemes) can be incentivised and promoted. Importantly, the project will develop standardised processes for data analysis to help support CIMA's objectives for improving the quality of life of local communities while conserving forests.As CIMA is required to report on how its conservation work benefits local people, the project will support the development of a data management approach that is based on community needs and wants, and helps to develop a holistic approach to understanding the links between livelihoods, supply chains, and deforestation. The proposed project will involve collection, cleaning and consolidation of the NGO-held data, and develop a platform on which the data can be stored and easily accessed by CIMA in the long-term. This will support the NGO in project monitoring and evaluation duties, and reporting to funding agencies, impact investors and against policy frameworks such as the UN Sustainable Development Goals and the UN Convention on Biological Diversity. Following the principles of mutual learning and transparency, all data and analysis will be shared by all members of the project team, and regular online meetings will be held between the research team and CIMA, to ensure that the data platform is developed with the input of users and to ensure that the project meets CIMA's needs. The project is based on a strong relationship between the research team and the local partners, CIMA, who have successfully worked together on a preliminary ESRC IAA fund.The research term at the University of Sussex will organise a series of three participatory workshops (project inception; capacity building; outputs and impact workshops) in Peru, with the project's beneficiaries and stakeholders, including local and national government agencies. This will help to ensure that the project is supportive of Peru's national vision for sustainable development and that the project can inform sub-national and national policy in Peru. Furthermore, the project has important implications for a large international community of practice (including business, civil society, funding agencies, governments) working on the intersection of forests, supply chains and local livelihoods; which demands a strong evidence base for action. The research team is interdisciplinary in nature, bringing together environmental scientists, human geographers, sustainable supply chain and performance indicator experts. Outcomes of the research will then also inform those various academic communities, leading to better understanding of the influences between rural development, agricultural commodity production, including for export to global markets, and environmental conservation.