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This research paper describes the BEST-P initiative, a project supported by the Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research (IAI) that examines the relationship between territorial arrangement plans and ecosystem services in three South American ecosystems. The project, involving 23 researchers from nine institutions across five countries, aims to integrate the concept of ecosystem services into land use planning to balance conservation with agricultural productivity.

• The BEST-P research concludes that conservation efforts in certain areas of southern South America can be improved by 30–50% without causing a significant reduction in the productivity of the silvopastoral sector.
• In the Chacopampean plain, simulations using the CENTURY model indicate that replacing woods with annual crops resulted in a loss of 66mg of carbon per hectare of surface biomass and a 40% loss of carbon in the soil layer up to 1m deep. This loss has negatively impacted erosion protection, soil drainage regulation, and weather.
• Deforestation in the Argentinian Chaco is identified as a key problem, with more than 50% of it being illegal. The researchers state that the absence of tools to quantify the resulting damage hinders efforts to stop this process and compromises the sustainability of agricultural production.
• Land-use changes over the last 15 years have led to the loss of more than 25% of subsistence resources for aboriginal communities in the Chaco. The researchers found that land-use changes have driven territorial disputes that affect the basic human rights of indigenous people and peasants, and that the benefits of land transformation are not reaching the most vulnerable social sectors.

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Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research (n.d.). crn-3095-88275a9ac3570daf.pdf. https://iai.int/admin/site/sites/default/files/CRN-3095.pdf

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@techreport{interamericaninstituteforglobalchangeresearchndcrn309588275a9ac3570dafpdf, author = {{Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research}}, title = {{crn-3095-88275a9ac3570daf.pdf}}, institution = {Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research}, url = {https://iai.int/admin/site/sites/default/files/CRN-3095.pdf}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }