Instituto Sociedade, População e Natureza

The Instituto Sociedade, População e Natureza (ISPN) is a civil society organization that has worked for more than 35 years to strengthen sustainable livelihoods with community protagonism and appreciation of knowledge and sociobiodiversity. Its work is guided by socio-environmental and climate justice, and it supports the generation and exchange of knowledge, recognizing the essential role of local communities. ISPN structures its work in programs connecting biomes, knowledge and communities, including Cerrado, Community Initiatives, Maranhão, Indigenous Peoples, and Sociobiodiversity. Its history began in 1990 when a group of researchers decided to join efforts to qualify and document their research and act in defense of the environment in dialogue with social debates.

ISPN's history begins in 1990, when a group of researchers decided to join efforts to qualify and document their research and to act in defense of the environment in dialogue with social debates; from this initiative the Instituto Sociedade, População e Natureza (ISPN) was born. In 1994, ISPN was selected by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) to coordinate the Small Grants Programme (SGP) in Brazil, focused on the Cerrado; the SGP supports community-based projects in more than 120 countries with support from the Global Environment Facility (GEF). This experience drove its work with ecosystem-social projects, which today gain strength with Fundo Ecos, an independent philanthropy mechanism for socio-environmental justice. In 2013, ISPN expanded its work to the Caatinga, and two years later, with support from the Amazon Fund, it began supporting initiatives also in the states of Maranhão, Tocantins and Mato Grosso. Since then, it has supported more than a thousand projects.

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