Indicadores de sostenibilidad y externalidades del sector porcicultor del ecuador periodo 2017-2021

Abstract

The swine farming sector is an activity that provides returns for the country's economy, since it contributes to the development of society and plays an important role in the provision of food and constant income for families, but carrying out this activity presents various problems, both environmental and of a collective nature. In this research it was possible to determine the sustainability indicators that can be used in swine production, among the sustainability indicators that were analyzed in this sector are the implementation of preventive measures for animal disease, sustainable agrodiversity, diversity of breeds, level of information on alternative technologies, level of organization, diversity of productive activities and production costs. Each of these indicators was structured in social, environmental and economic dimensions, since these indicators allow us to better manage these activities and to know the state of sustainability of these production systems. Therefore, the production chain of this sector generates pollutants that directly affect the environment causing negative externalities, among the externalities that were determined in this study are water consumption, generation of hazardous waste, production of excrement, generation of wastewater, in this sense it can be said that these externalities contribute to the pollution of water, air and soil that are harmful to society, because of all this, appropriate strategies should be implemented to counteract the degree of pollution caused by these externalities.