The end of the agricultural frontier in Nicaragua and its impact on national development

Abstract

The end of the agricultural frontier in Nicaragua means the end of the availability of land to increase extensive agricultural production, which, from 1950 until now, is the main base of the Nicaraguan economy. The objective of this study was to describe the process of destruction of natural resources in the agricultural frontier and to explain the social mechanism that led to this situation. In the research process, bibliography dating from 1950 was reviewed, quantitative data from national and international institutions were used in comparative form and quantitative and qualitative variables were used to explain the phenomenon and make scientific predictions. The thesis presented, shows that the depletion of available land, combined with the serious effects of climate change on the availability of water, leads to Nicaragua for the first time in its history, in an economic imbalance and a possible serious social conflict. The proposal to avoid the crisis, is the alliance between producers, strata of the epistemic community and government, which allows to change the public policies of the state and establish a sustainable agroindustry for sustainable production, replacing the current agribusiness of oligopsonic cartel companies.