AGATA

AGATA (Acompañamiento para la Gobernanza Adaptiva de la Tierra en Apurímac) is a participatory research project in the Mariño watershed (Apurímac, Peru) I initiated with Bruno Locatelli in 2015. This project is being carried out in collaboration with various local institutions (SUNASS, CEDES and IDMA NGOs). It more specifically aims to: 

• Produce a time-serie of land-use maps to track landscape transformations using machine learning, and analyse the socio-economic drivers of land-use changes. 

• Develop innovative methods for mapping ecosystem services, using machine learning. 

• Develop transdisciplinary ecosystem services evaluation methods to highlight the multiple patterns of human-nature interactions.

• Analyze the impacts of conservation initiatives on ecosystems capacity to sustainably provide ecosystem services.

I have supervized the work of several interns and young consultants, who contributed to AGATA research activities : Jules Michard (M2 intern), Matthieu Verlynde (M1 intern), Joachim Peladan (M2 intern), Eva Souty (M1 intern), Lisa Lejemtel (M2 intern), Arnaud Areste (L2 intern), Meriam Arfaoui (M2 intern), Léa Crépin (M1 intern),  Merelyn Valdivia (Consultant and M2 intern), Harold Silva (Consultant), Diego Padilla (Consultant). 

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AGATA is funded by the following partners: