The Fronteiras Institute operates inter-institutional cooperation networks creating collective solutions in the Juruá Valley.
We promote relevant local changes, reversing destructive behaviors towards nature, regenerating ecosystems and their communities and strengthening transformed trajectories aiming at a sustainable future.
Our name comes from our focus on the frontiers that are formed here and now, a unique context in which we find ourselves. Here, in one of the main centers of cultural and biological diversity in the world. And now, in a time of climate and environmental crisis that threatens all forms of life on Earth.
Starting from the previous experience of its founders, Instituto Fronteiras was born as a civil society organization based in Juruá in 2017, as a result of the complexification of research and extension initiatives linked to the Federal University of Acre, Floresta Campus, as it established partnership relations with indigenous peoples and traditional communities in the Juruá Valley around their challenges in managing their territories and community organizations.
We network with local communities committed to the standing forest, favoring projects aimed at development from a socio-economic and environmental point of view, exploiting synergies between private and public institutions, including community associations, NGOs, foundations, universities and companies. In the search for solutions to the complex problem of our borders, we promote the creation of training within cooperation networks, the promotion of new social technologies to increase human and social capital, socio-environmental and gender equity and the sustainable use of natural resources in the territories.
We work on a local and regional scale in a network with various other institutions and groups, connecting activities within socially and environmentally sustainable projects. Our territorial focus is the Brazilian Western Amazon with all its diversity arising from geographical, social, economic, cultural and political-institutional borders.
We are based in the heart of the Amazon rainforest, in the Juruá river valley, in the municipality of Cruzeiro do Sul, in Acre. Our work covers the states of Acre and Amazonas.
