Comercio de productos agrícolas, mineros y su impacto en el uso del suelo en Latinoamérica.

Abstract

Abstract: In recent years, the inconvenience of changes in land use due to mineral exploitation and agriculture has become increasingly important. Therefore, it is considered transcendental to analyze the effects of environmental problems. The present research evaluates how the trade of agricultural and mining products and changes in land use, using the variable of jungle area as an indicator of changes in land use and additional variables such as agricultural land, exports of metals and minerals, food exports, population density, as those that cause such changes in the ecosystem. A fixed effects panel model was used. This method allows correcting for heteroscedasticity and multicollinearity, thus ensuring that the model is functional. The results show that the variables agricultural land, mineral and food exports, and population density have negative coefficients, which implies a negative correlation with the endogenous variable. Thus, the impacts on land use due to trade, mining and agriculture are due to the increase in population and with it the increase in agricultural land and demand for minerals and food, which generates greater destruction of forests due to the clearing of new areas for the development of these different activities, which leads to major changes in the ecosystem.