Análisis de las políticas económicas orientadas a disminuir el impacto ambiental del sector alimentario en el periodo 2011-2021.

Abstract

The objective of this research is to identify economic policies aimed at reducing the environmental impact of the food sector in Ecuador, for the respective analysis information from secondary sources was used, with the application of the descriptive method, which allows analyzing the main problems identified on food waste; there are high levels of waste of resources and a large sector of the population with levels of poverty that does not allow them to supply themselves with the minimum nutrients. For this reason, it is essential to promote economic policies on the reduction of food losses and waste, in the different links of the production and marketing chain. It is concluded that within the economic policies, the most important one that deals with food waste in the National Plan for Good Living, in order to control and mitigate environmental contamination in the processes of extraction, production, consumption and post-consumption of materials raw, in Ecuador 939 tons of food are wasted per year, which means 334 million dollars comes mainly from the dairy industry and agricultural production. Given this context, the overproduction of food supposes unnecessary CO2 emissions, increasing global warming and climate change.