02073naa a2200301 a 450000100080000000500110000800800410001902400280006010000180008824501000010626000090020650002320021552010090044765300110145665300110146765300100147865300160148865300240150465300160152865300130154465300170155765300180157465300120159270000170160470000160162170000220163777301120165910617222022-09-02       2021    bl uuuu     u00u1 u    #d7 a10.1111/conl.127942DOI1 aFAINGERCH, M.  aLand privatization and deforestation in a commodity production frontier.h[electronic resource]  c2021  aArticle history: Received: 15 July 2020 / Revised: 4 January 2021 /Accepted: 16 January 2021/ First published: 02 February 2021. [Correction added on 08 February 2021, after first online publication: Figure 5 has been updated].  aAbstract: Conservation policies often promote land privatization to reduce incentives for deforestation. However, empirical evidence on the relationship between land?tenure form and forest conservation outcomes is inconclusive. We combined key informant mapping and geospatial analyses to test the association between the area under tenure and the area deforested by extra?local private and local nonprivate agents in the Argentine Dry Chaco over four decades (1976?2016). The study area is a typical commodity production frontier within a global deforestation hotspot. We found a strong spatial and temporal coupling between the area under tenure and the area deforested by extra?local private agents from 1987 to 2006, when a 59% increase in the former was accompanied by a 508% increase in the latter. Local private agents maintained high levels of forest cover, similarly to local nonprivate agents. Our findings have implications for the adaptive design of the Forest Law in the Argentine Dry Chaco.  aACCESS  aCATTLE  aCHACO  aDRY FORESTS  aFOREST CONSERVATION  aLAND TENURE  aLAND-USE  aPRIVATE LAND  aSOUTH AMERICA  aSOYBEAN1 aVALLEJOS, M.1 aTEXEIRA, M.1 aMASTRANGELO, M.E.  tConservation Letters, e12794, 2021. OPEN ACCESS.[Article in Press]. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/conl.12794