Collective property rights reduce deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon

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  • Kathryn Baragwanath
    Department of Political Science, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093;
  • Ella Bayi
    Department of Political Science, Columbia University, New York, NY, 10027

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<jats:title>Significance</jats:title> <jats:p>Deforestation in the Amazon has reached record highs in 2019 and poses a serious threat to climate change. In Brazil, about 2 million hectares of indigenous land are still awaiting homologation, and thus do not have their full property rights. We find that granting property rights significantly reduces the levels of deforestation inside indigenous territories, and the results are of significant orders of magnitude. Our local effects indicate that areas of land right inside a territory with full property rights experience significantly less deforestation than those right outside of the border. Collective property rights might thus provide an effective way to reduce deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon.</jats:p>

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