Publications
Publications
Over more than a decade of research, Juan Pablo has published extensively at the intersection of anthropology, forest governance, climate policy, and the rights of Indigenous Peoples.
Multi-stakeholder platforms and collaborative governance
Foundational and applied work on designing, facilitating, and evaluating multi-stakeholder processes for land and resource governance.
Multi-stakeholder platforms
Designing for engagement: A Realist Synthesis Review of how context affects the outcomes of multi-stakeholder forums in land use
Realist synthesis of how context shapes the outcomes of multi-stakeholder forums in land use and land-use change.
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A place at the table is not enough: Accountability for Indigenous peoples and local communities in multi-stakeholder forums
On accountability toward Indigenous Peoples and local communities inside multi-stakeholder forums.
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So you want to host a multi-stakeholder platform? Designing meaningful, inclusive spaces for transformative change
A design guide for meaningful, inclusive multi-stakeholder platforms aimed at transformative change.
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- Sarmiento Barletti JP and AM Larson. 2020. How are land-use multi-stakeholder forums affected by their contexts? Perspectives from two regions of the Peruvian Amazon. In J Innes and W Nikolakis (eds.) The Wicked Problem of Forest Policy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- Sarmiento Barletti JP and AM Larson. 2021. Multi-stakeholder forums and the promise of more equitable and sustainable land and resource use: perspectives from Brazil, Ethiopia, Indonesia, and Peru. International Forestry Review 23(S1).
- Sarmiento Barletti JP et al. 2020. How are we doing? A reflexive tool to learn about our multi-stakeholder forum's process, progress and priorities. Bogor: CIFOR.
- Sarmiento Barletti JP and Heise N. 2024. More than a meeting: Getting the best out of multi-stakeholder invited spaces in the Brazilian and Peruvian Amazon. World Development Perspectives 35.
- Sarmiento Barletti JP, AM Larson and NM Heise. 2022. Understanding difference to build bridges between stakeholders: Perceptions of participation in four multi-stakeholder forums in the Peruvian Amazon. The Journal of Development Studies 58(1): 19-37.
- Ratner BD, AM Larson, Sarmiento Barletti JP, et al. 2022. Building and sustaining multi-stakeholder platforms for natural resource governance: Lessons from eight cases. Ecology and Society 27(2).
- Sarmiento Barletti JP, AM Larson and NM Heise. 2021. Organizing for transformation? Why organizers plan their multi-stakeholder forums. International Forestry Review 23(S1).
- Gonzales J, Sarmiento Barletti JP, AM Larson, et al. 2021. Can multi-stakeholder forums empower indigenous and local communities and promote forest conservation? Conservation Science & Practice.
- Yami M, Sarmiento Barletti JP and AM Larson. 2021. Multi-stakeholder forums and good governance: Two cases from communal forest management in Ethiopia. International Forestry Review 23(S1).
- Londres M, AM Larson, and Sarmiento Barletti JP. 2021. The costs of elite-oriented multi-stakeholder forums to address deforestation: the case of the Green Municipalities Program in the Brazilian Amazon. International Forestry Review 23(S1).
- Larson AM, Sarmiento Barletti JP and A. Ravinkumar. 2018. 'The challenge of coordination in REDD+ policy and practice', in A. Angelsen et al. (eds.) Transforming REDD+. Bogor: CIFOR.
- Ratner BD, AM Larson, Sarmiento Barletti JP, H ElDidi, D Catacutan, F Flintan, D Suhardiman, T Falk, R Meinzen-Dick and U Farooqui. 2022. Nurturing multi-stakeholder platforms in landscape governance: guidance for organizers and supporters. PIM Policy Brief.
Land tenure, rights, and Indigenous Peoples and local communities
Research and policy guidance on collective tenure, rights-based approaches, and Indigenous-led governance of territories and forests.
Land tenure & Indigenous rights
Rights-Based Approaches and Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities: Findings from a literature review
A literature review on rights-based approaches with Indigenous Peoples and local communities.
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Is the formalization of collective tenure rights supporting sustainable Indigenous livelihoods?
Insights from Comunidades Nativas in the Peruvian Amazon on collective tenure formalization.
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Land tenure & Indigenous rights
Indigenous Peoples as resources and as resource-makers in Peruvian Amazonia
How co-management exposes power dynamics — Indigenous Peoples as both managers and contested resources.
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- E Killick and Sarmiento Barletti JP. 2024. Contesting control: Indigenous strategies towards territorial governance in Lowland South America. Bulletin of Latin American Research 43(2).
- Sarmiento Barletti JP, P Cronkleton and N Heise. 2022. What should Community Forest Management do? Comparative Perspectives from the Peruvian Amazon. Ecology and Society 27(4).
- Rodriguez D and Sarmiento Barletti JP. 2021. Can multi-stakeholder forums mediate indigenous rights and development priorities? Insights from the Peruvian Amazon. International Forestry Review 23(S1).
- Gonzales J, AM Larson, Sarmiento Barletti JP, and G Barnes. 2021. Politics, power and the search for sustainability in multi-stakeholder territorial planning: A comparative study of two contrasting cases in the Brazilian Amazon. International Forestry Review 23(S1).
- Sunderlin W, AM Larson and Sarmiento Barletti JP. 2018. 'REDD+ and tenure: progress, shortfalls, and the way forward', in A Angelsen et al. (eds). Transforming REDD+. Bogor: CIFOR.
Climate finance, carbon markets & REDD+ safeguards
Analysis and guidance on social safeguards, integrity, and Indigenous rights in carbon finance and REDD+ implementation.
Climate, carbon & REDD+
Not all forest carbon credits are created equal: High integrity programmes and conditions for success
Occasional Paper 20 (CIFOR-ICRAF). Comparative evidence on the conditions under which forest carbon programmes deliver high-integrity outcomes for people and forests.
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Climate, carbon & REDD+
Justicia ambiental en la Frontera REDD+: experiencias desde la Amazonía y más allá
A chapter on environmental justice at the REDD+ frontier, drawing on experiences from the Amazon and beyond.
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Climate, carbon & REDD+
EnABLE Social Inclusion Framework for Results-based Climate Finance Initiatives
The World Bank's framework for social inclusion in results-based climate finance initiatives.
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- Lasheras T, Sarmiento Barletti JP, et al. 2023. Examining support for the rights of Indigenous Peoples and local communities in the context of REDD+ in the DRC, Indonesia and Peru: A comparative analysis with recommendations for further progress. Bogor: CIFOR-ICRAF.
- Peña P and Sarmiento Barletti JP. 2023. Peru's regulatory framework for carbon markets: Current legal and policy developments in the context of REDD+. CIFOR Infobrief 356.
- Sarmiento Barletti JP, AM Larson, K Lofts and A Frechette. 2021. Safeguards at a glance: Supporting the rights of Indigenous Peoples and local communities in REDD+ and other forest-based initiatives. Bogor: CIFOR.
- Wong G, TT Pham, I Valencia … and Sarmiento Barletti JP. 2022. Designing REDD+ benefit-sharing mechanisms: From policy to practice. Bogor: CIFOR.
- Sarmiento Barletti JP and AM Larson. 2020. Environmental Justice in the REDD+ Frontier: Experiences from the Amazon and Beyond. In N Robbins and B Fraser (eds.) Landscapes of Inequity: The Quest for Environmental Justice in the Andes/Amazon Region. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.
- Lasheras T, Sarmiento Barletti JP and AM Larson. 2024. Safeguards at a glance: Are the Monitoring, Reporting, Verification, and Grievance Redress Mechanisms of voluntary standards supporting community rights in REDD+? Bogor: CIFOR-ICRAF.
- Sarmiento Barletti JP, NM Heise and AM Larson. 2023. Safeguards at a glance: Are voluntary standards supporting community land, resource, and carbon rights? Bogor: CIFOR-ICRAF.
- Sarmiento Barletti JP, NM Heise, E Garner and AM Larson. 2022. Safeguards at a glance: Are voluntary standards supporting gender equality and women's inclusion in REDD+? Bogor: CIFOR-ICRAF.
- Dhedya MB, Sarmiento Barletti JP and AM Larson. 2022. Examining support for the rights of Indigenous Peoples in the context of REDD+ in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Bogor: CIFOR-ICRAF.
- Rodriguez S, Sarmiento Barletti JP and AM Larson. 2022. Examining support for the rights of Indigenous Peoples in the context of REDD+ in Peru. Bogor: CIFOR-ICRAF.
- Liswanti N, A Tamara, Sarmiento Barletti JP and AM Larson. 2022. Examining support for the rights of Indigenous Peoples and local communities in the context of REDD+ in Indonesia. Bogor: CIFOR-ICRAF.
- Lofts K, Sarmiento Barletti JP and AM Larson. 2021. Lessons towards rights-responsive REDD+ safeguards from a literature review. CIFOR-ICRAF Working Paper 280.
Conservation governance and protected areas
Comparative research on community-conservation relations and co-management of protected areas.
Conservation & protected areas
¿Cómo vamos? Una herramienta para reflexionar sobre los procesos, avances y prioridades de nuestras Reservas Comunales
A reflexive tool co-produced with ANECAP, CIFOR-ICRAF, and SERNANP for Peru's Reservas Comunales.
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Between co-management and responsibilization: Comparative perspectives from two Reservas Comunales in the Peruvian Amazon
Comparative perspectives from two Reservas Comunales in the Peruvian Amazon.
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Typology of relations between communities and conservation areas: A conceptual framework from a comparative study in the Andean Amazon
A conceptual framework for typologising community-conservation relations across the Andean Amazon.
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- Vásquez Jara R, Sarmiento Barletti JP, V Martínez et al. 2025. Gobernanza basada en derechos para la conservación de la biodiversidad en Perú: Recomendaciones para una conservación más efectiva y equitativa. CIFOR-ICRAF Infobrief 439.
- Gonzales G, M Morales and Sarmiento Barletti JP. 2025. Marcos legales internacionales para la construcción de una conservación basada en derechos en la región andino-amazónica. CIFOR-ICRAF Infobrief 443.
- Sarmiento Barletti JP. 2022. Learning from Adaptive Collaborative Management: A participatory tool to support adaptive and reflective learning in multi-stakeholder forums. In C Colfer, R. Prabhu and AM Larson (eds.) Adaptive Collaborative Management in Forest Landscapes. New York: Earthscan.
- Palacios Llaque D and Sarmiento Barletti JP. 2021. The challenges of multiple governmentalities and forms of participation in protected natural areas: The Amarakaeri Communal Reserve (Peruvian Amazon). International Forestry Review 23(S1).
Monitoring, evaluation and learning tools
Designed and field-tested reflexive tools enabling communities, platforms, and organisations to monitor and adapt their own governance processes.
MEL tools
Building partnerships to support people-centred land governance: A toolkit to foster collaboration between Government and Civil Society Organisations
An evidence-based toolkit for building inclusive land-governance partnerships across governments and CSOs.
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MEL tools
¿Cómo vamos? Una herramienta para reflexionar sobre los Comités de Gestión de las Áreas Naturales Protegidas
A reflexive tool for the Management Committees of Peru's Protected Natural Areas.
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¿Cómo vamos? Herramienta sobre la participación de las mujeres indígenas u originarias en la gestión de sus territorios
A tool to reflect on Indigenous women's participation in territorial governance.
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- Sarmiento Barletti JP, AM Larson, X Gomez Lavi et al. 2021. ¿Cómo vamos? A tool to support more equitable co-management of Peru's protected areas. CIFOR Infobrief 326.
- Evans K, … Sarmiento Barletti JP et al. 2021. Getting it right: a guide to improve inclusion in multi-stakeholder forums. Bogor: CIFOR.
Development and wellbeing
Research on natural resource extraction, conflict, and post-violence reconstruction.
Development & wellbeing
War by other means at the extractive frontier: The violence of reconstruction in 'post-war' Peru
On the violence of reconstruction in 'post-war' Peru at the extractive frontier.
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Julian's choice: Of shamans, jaguar-shamans, and the sacrifices for progreso in Peru's extractive frontier
Shamans, jaguar-shamans, and the sacrifices for progreso along Peru's extractive frontier.
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Between care and conflict: Relations of resource extraction in the Peruvian Amazon
On resource-extraction relations in the Peruvian Amazon — between care and conflict.
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- Sarmiento Barletti JP and E Caruso. 2019. 'Kametsa asaiki: wellbeing and personhood in the Peruvian Amazon', in A Kothari, A Escobar and A Acosta (eds.) Pluriverse: A Post-Development Dictionary. New York: Columbia University Press.
- Killick E and Sarmiento Barletti JP. 2023. Indigenous transformations in the comunidad nativa: Rethinking kinship and its limitations in an expanding resource frontier. Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America 19(1).
- Sarmiento Barletti JP. 2022. El fin del mundo (otra vez): reflexiones sobre la idea de la persona asháninka en el Perú posconflicto. In O Espinosa and E Fabiano (eds.) Las enfermedades que llegan de lejos: Los pueblos amazónicos del Perú frente las epidemias de ayer y a la COVID-19. Lima: PUCP.
- Montag D, ... Sarmiento Barletti JP et al. 2021. Healthcare of Indigenous Amazonian Peoples in response to COVID-19: marginality, discrimination and revaluation of ancestral knowledge in Ucayali, Peru. BMJ Global Health.
- Sarmiento Barletti JP and L Seedhouse. 2019. 'The Truth and Reconciliation Commission and Law of Prior Consultation: A comparative approach to two missed opportunities for democratisation in Peru'. Latin American Perspectives 46(5): 111-127.
- Sarmiento Barletti JP and E Ferraro. 2018. 'Kametsa Asaiki: una filosofía ashaninka para Vivir Bien. Re-conceptualizando bienestar, cultura y lugar', in E Ferraro (comp.) Materialidades, Cuerpos y Saberes. Etnografías Escojidas. Quito: Abya Yala.
- Sarmiento Barletti JP. 2017. 'The rise of the egalitarrant in post-war Peruvian Amazonia', in P Virtanen and H Veber (eds.) Creating Dialogues: Indigenous Perceptions and Forms of Leadership in Amazonia. Boulder: University of Colorado Press.
- Sarmiento Barletti JP. 2016. '"It makes me sad when they say we are poor, we are rich!": of wealth and public wealth in indigenous Amazonia', in F. Santos-Granero (ed.) Images of Public Wealth in Tropical America. Tucson: University of Arizona Press.
- Sarmiento Barletti JP. 2016. 'The angry earth: Wellbeing, place, and extractive development in the Amazon'. Anthropology in Action 23(3).
- Sarmiento Barletti JP. 2016. 'La comunidad en los tiempos de la Comunidad: bienestar y autonomía en las Comunidades Nativas asháninka'. Bulletin de l'Institut français d'études andines 45(1): 157-172.
- Sarmiento Barletti JP. 2015. 'Of smoking and wellbeing in indigenous Amazonia', in A. Russell (ed.) The Master Plant: Tobacco in Lowland South America. London: Bloomsbury.
- Sarmiento Barletti JP. 2014. 'Questões sobre a política do "Vivir Bien" na Amazônia indígena'. Revista de Estudos em Relações Interetnicas 18(1).
- Sarmiento Barletti JP. 2012. 'Les enjeux politiques du bien-vivre en Amazonie autochtone'. Recherches Amérindiennes au Québec 42(2-3): 49-61.
Public-facing writing and media
Translating research into accessible commentary for policy audiences, journalists, and the public.
Public writing & media
Not all carbon credits are created equal: Towards a common understanding of social integrity in climate solutions
Toward a common understanding of social integrity in carbon-based climate solutions.
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Public writing & media
Diálogos de conservación apoyan la implementación de enfoques basados en derechos en la Amazonía
How conservation dialogues support the rollout of rights-based approaches across the Amazon.
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Public writing & media
Tres recomendaciones para apoyar los derechos de los pueblos indígenas y las comunidades locales
Three practical recommendations for supporting Indigenous Peoples' and local communities' rights.
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- Martínez V, Sarmiento Barletti JP, R Vasquez. 2025. Perú: Codiseñando herramientas para una conservación inclusiva y colaborativa. Los bosques en las noticias.
- Lasheras T, Vasquez R, Sarmiento Barletti JP. 2025. Hacia una conservación inclusiva en Perú, Colombia, Ecuador y Bolivia. CIFOR-ICRAF News.
- Sarmiento Barletti JP and AM Larson. 2022. Doing better than 'Do no harm'. Forest News.
- Sarmiento Barletti JP, AM Larson and Heise Vigil N. 2022. Rethinking multi-stakeholder forums for marginalized groups. Forest News.
- Sarmiento Barletti JP, Larson AM, Gardner E and Heise Vigil N. 2023. Moving from gender-blindness to gender transformation in REDD+? Forest News.
- Sarmiento Barletti JP, Larson AM and Dhedya MB. 2023. Ten criteria for understanding the recognition of and respect for community rights. Forest News.
- Sarmiento Barletti JP and S Rodriguez. 2022. Perú: Un análisis del estado de los derechos de los Pueblos Indígenas en el contexto de REDD+. Forest News.
- Sarmiento Barletti JP and T Carrillo. 2022. Can adaptive and reflexive learning support more resilient multi-stakeholder forums? Forest News.
- Begert B, Sarmiento Barletti JP and M Guerra. 2021. Is the formalization of collective tenure rights supporting sustainable Indigenous livelihoods? Forest News.
- Bustamante M, Sarmiento Barletti JP and P Cronkleton. 2021. Perú: Nueva herramienta para un manejo forestal comunitario más efectivo e inclusive. Forest News.
- Delgado D and Sarmiento Barletti JP. 2021. Perú: Una plataforma científico-política para un REDD+ eficaz, eficiente y equitativo. Forest News.
- Mariño H, Sarmiento Barletti JP and N Aguilar. 2021. Por más mujeres indígenas participando efectivamente en la gobernanza de sus territorios. Forest News.
- Gonzales G, Sarmiento Barletti JP and M Arenas. 2021. Perú: una nueva herramienta para la gestión participativa de las áreas naturales protegidas. Forest News.
- Dejtiar F. 2021. Mercados Post Covid-19 en Lima, ¿Cómo serán?. ArchDaily.
- Sarmiento Barletti JP and AM Larson. 2020. New tool embeds equality into landscape management strategies in Peruvian Amazon. Forest News.
- Sarmiento Barletti JP and AM Larson. 2017. 'What would a rights-based REDD+ look like?' Forest News.
- Sarmiento Barletti JP. 2016. 'When Two Worlds Collide: Peruvian protest documentary reveals the flipside of progress'. The Conversation.
- Sarmiento Barletti JP. 2016. 'Peruvian protest documentary reveals the dark side of economic success'. The Independent.
- Sarmiento Barletti JP. 2015. 'The Ashaninka of Peru: rescued from Shining Path militants, but still at risk'. The Conversation.