A new report from the Igarape Institute delivers a snapshot of the scope and scale of the migration and displacement challenges ahead     Rising temperatures and extreme weather are increasingly determining where and how people live. Heat waves, droughts, forest fires, hurricanes, and storms…

Exhaustive field research from Ecuador, Venezuela, Bolivia, Guyana and Suriname highlights the ways in which criminal actors and networks are contributing to illegal deforestation and environmental degradation Because illegal deforestation does not respect borders, InSight Crime and the Igarapé Institute have launched an investigation into…

From the Amazon Basin to equatorial Africa and Asia, some of the world’s largest and most biodiverse habitats are facing unprecedented threats. Environmental crime has gone global, posing existential risks not just to some of the world’s signature biomes but also to the international quest…

Nearly half (45%) of Federal Police interventions from 2010-2021 targeted illicit acts on protected areas and indigenous lands   A new study by the Igarapé institute analyzing more than 300 Federal Police operations between 2016 and 2021 found that environmental crime in the Amazon region…

Exhaustive field research from Peru highlights the ways in which criminal actors and networks are contributing to illegal deforestation and environmental degradation   Peru’s 70 million hectares of rainforest are being razed at an alarming rate. In 2020, the country saw a record 203,000 hectares…

  Igarapé Institute co-founder and president Ilona Szabó has been named to the newly created High-Level Advisory Board of the United Nations Secretary-General. She joins 11 other publicly acclaimed figures including former heads of state, sitting government authorities and eminent scholars who will be tasked…

  The organization releases a new video to mark its anniversary  Launched ten years ago, the Igarapé Institute is more prolific and impactful than ever. On its tenth anniversary the Institute is expanding its engagement with climate security and digital security alongside public security. The…

  A series of randomized control trials in six countries evaluate whether community policing improves security A vexing question facing all countries is how they can best reduce crime and improve public security? A common response is to deploy police, including sending officers to work…

The new stories will be available on the interactive platform EcoCrime Data; the organization will also participate in panels  The Igarapé Institute releases today (November 8th) at COP26 (Glasgow) ten news stories on its EcoCrime Data platform, each of which tells a distinct tale about…

Rio de Janeiro’s public security authorities must  stop relying on lethal interventions as a policing strategy   May 7th – Rio de Janeiro   The Igarapé Institute is deeply saddened by the brutal killing of 25 people, including a law enforcement officer, during a police…

As part of this launch, the Igarape Institute is releasing a new report – The Ágora is under attack: a typology for the analysis of the closure of civic space in Brazil and in the world

Este artigo analisa as práticas atuais em padrões e benchmarking para a agricultura de soja, pecuária e extração de madeira.

A new study by Igarape Institute, Future Crime, highlights the evidence on crime prediction tools. It also provides an overview of the opportunities and pitfalls of new technologies to fight criminality and states recommendations to ensure transparency and accountability. 

Prison Populism finds that Latin America will likely sustain the world´s highest proportion of inmates for the foreseeable future.

March 2018 This week sees the Instituto Igarapé’s launch of its Forced Migration Monitor, bringing unprecedented research into the phenomenon of forced displacement in Brazil.   Refugees represent less than 0.005% of the Brazilian population, but another kind of migrant accounts for a much larger…