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ArticleAmbio2026

Impacts of agricultural expansion on the resource availability of forest-dependent Indigenous communities in the Dry Chaco.

María Vallejos, Ana Álvarez, Olivia Del Giorgio, Tobias Kuemmerle

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Article in Ambio, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

  1. Commodity frontiers expand more slowly into tropical forests where forest smallholders are present.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

María VallejosGeography Department, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Unter den Linden 6, 10099, Berlin, Germany. vallejos@agro.uba.ar.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1749-6458
Ana ÁlvarezAcompañamiento Social de la Iglesia Anglicana en el Norte Argentino (ASOCIANA), General Güemes 1180, 4400, Salta, Argentina.
Olivia Del GiorgioDepartment of Geography, McGill University, Burnside Hall Building, 805 Sherbrooke Street West, Montreal, QC, H3A 0B9, Canada.
Tobias KuemmerleGeography Department, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Unter den Linden 6, 10099, Berlin, Germany.

Funding

HORIZON EUROPE European Research Council 101001239 SYSTEMSHIFT
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Agricultural expansion into tropical and subtropical forests threatens forest-dependent communities by disrupting their access to vital resources. We explored these impacts for over 400 Indigenous communities in the Argentine Dry Chaco, a deforestation hotspot due to agricultural expansion. Using participatory mapping, we estimated resource collection footprints for plants and animals, and integrated these with deforestation data mapped from satellite images to show that by 2021, communities had lost on average 21% of their forests. An ecosystem services supply index revealed that 33% of communities saw 10-35% reductions in resource availability in 2001-2021. We also found substantial increase in access restrictions (42%), and communities had to travel over 10 km further to reach natural water sources. These findings highlight the severe consequences of agricultural expansion on Indigenous communities in the Chaco and likely many other dry forest regions, emphasizing the need for policies to prevent ecological marginalization of forest-dependent communities.

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AgricultureConservation of Natural ResourcesForestsArgentinaEcosystemAgricultural frontiersForest-dependent peopleInequitiesNatural resource accessTropical dry woodlands and savannasVulnerability

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PMID40742496
PMCPMC12672981

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