@article{Zúniga-González:96911, recid = {96911}, author = {Zúniga-González, Carlos Alberto}, title = {Deforestation Impact on the Household Sustainable Local Development: Nicaragua case, 1998-2005.}, address = {2010-11-19}, number = {138-2016-1932}, pages = {23}, month = {Nov}, year = {2010}, note = {CENTRAL AMERICAN UNIVERSITY, CAU V INTERNATIONAL MEETING OF THE ENCUENTRO JOURNAL}, abstract = {The paper analyzes the deforestation problem and its Sustainable Local Development (SLD) impact, during 1998-2005 periods. A stochastic frontier production function is defined for panel data of farm-specific variables. The inefficiency effects are assumed to be independently distributed as truncations of normal distributions with constant variance, but with means which are a linear function of observable variables. Panel Data was chosen between social and environment variable of the data base of EMNV’98-05. The results proof that the deforestation problem is explicated by household social expenditure and the poverty. The mean technical efficiency was 25 %, and the poverty reach significant level for explaining technical inefficiency on the stochastic frontier model. The technical efficiency by year was 33 %, 36 % y 5.6 during 1998, 2001 y 2005 respectively. With these considerations, I suggest an educational and specialization process lying on the environment policy for reducing the farmer’s problem effects.}, url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/96911}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.96911}, }