Análisis del crecimiento económico e indicadores de sostenibilidad del sector camaronero en ecuador periodo 2015 al 2020

Abstract

The study analyzes the economic growth and sustainability indicators of the shrimp sector in Ecuador during the period 2015-2020, describing the national shrimp production, exports, the main destination countries, its contribution to agricultural GDP, and its contribution to the labor and business sector; It also reviews the main indicators of environmental sustainability to be able to relate them to production and how they will be adopted in Ecuadorian shrimp farms. The GDP in the shrimp sector has gone from contributing in 2015 with 0.87% to 1.48% in 2020, this positive behavior was evidenced in the participation of the sector in the agricultural GDP, in which it has contributed with 11.36% in 2015 reaching growth to 17.93%, in just 5 years; being its main destination countries, China, the United States, Spain and France; in the period 2015-2020, it was from 720 million to 1.4 billion pounds of shrimp exported. It has contributed to the business and labor sector, in 2020, it contributed with 45,193 jobs distributed in 1,210 companies. The main indicators of environmental sustainability are the environmental footprint, water footprint and carbon footprint; the specific indicators that have been implemented in Ecuador are those that measure the discharges generated by cultivation in coastal areas, changes in soil condition, use of pesticides and fertilizers, occupied area in protected areas, mangrove areas and terrestrial vegetation and the use of fossil fuels.