Revisión de métodos para medir la sostenibilidad agraria para el sistema de producción cacao

Abstract

The economic development of nations since the time of the industrial revolution, caused the increase of natural resources, having effects on climate change and therefore problems of food security, increased poverty and other effects. Therefore, sustainable development is a paradigm that new generations of professionals linked to the agricultural sector must achieve. It is necessary to measure sustainability by proposing or designing methodological frameworks to measure the economic, social and environmental dimensions. In this context, the objectives of the research were: to carry out a bibliometric analysis on the methods to measure agrarian sustainability; as well as, to list the criteria and indicators used. The methodology consisted of a systematic search of the information, where boolean markers were used, which were applied in the databases Google academic and Scopus; with a time frame between the years 2004-2019. The main results were: increased publications on measuring sustainability from 2012. Boolean bookmarks and academic Google search terms were not accurate at the time of the metric, because the database includes unvalidated publications, undergraduate and graduate theses. The MESMIS method was the most used, followed by SAFE. In general, the focus of the research carried out to measure sustainability is more for the environmental dimension in particular for the soil resource.