Frontline supported the Yorenka Tasorentsi project to consolidate its own territory within a private area. Together with Fronteiras, Yorenka worked along with local communities on this initiative through territorial identification, georeferencing, land allocation for registration, and satisfaction of legal standards for preservation and sustainability purposes. Activities carried out by this initiative comprised managing the construction of native-fish tanks and of an aviary, whose resources were included in negotiations focused on mediating territorial conflicts involving neighboring riverside communities.
The territorial mediation program focuses on finding solutions to conflicts over land allocation within a context of agricultural expansion and road infrastructure frontiers, as well as to gaps and overlaps among different land-tenure categories in the Amazonian region. In historical terms, agrarian reform initiatives and the demarcation of conservation areas were not enough to consolidate sustainable land-use and occupation standards for inhabitants of these areas.
Regenerative initiatives depend on pacific, strategic decision-making about land allocation in compliance with ancestral land-use practices that co-created the Amazonian region. Based on this program, Fronteiras develops solutions to two main conflict types: socioeconomic allocation conflicts antagonizing different development strategies and legal-institutional conflicts linked to land allocation processes.
