Indicadores de externalidades económicas de la actividad ganadera en ecuador durante el periodo 2000- 2019

Abstract

Agricultural activity is one of the mainstays of the Ecuadorian economy, where the livestock sector is one of the main activities that depend on its physical environment such as the environment, flora, fauna, ecosystem, effects that are not usually taken into account for its agricultural practices causing negative externalities that are related to environmental pollution, while the positive ones are linked to sources of employment, being a sector that generates food for the population. The general objective of this study is to develop indicators of economic externalities of livestock activity in Ecuador during the period 2000 - 2019, to have a more concrete idea of its growth and the economic factors to which it is exposed. For the compilation of information, the documentary methodology was used, for which scientific articles, Internet portals of government institutions were accessed, with which statistical figures were made for their analysis and interpretation. As an environmental protection mechanism caused by the livestock sector, environmental policies should be proposed where fines and taxes could be an alternative adjusted to the Pigoe approach, or agreements could be made with economic agents as suggested by the Coase approach.