Contribuições de eco-inovações para a sustentabilidade da fruticultura de manga da região submédio São Francisco.

Abstract

The incorporation of eco-innovations in the productive activities of a company can enhance the achievement of economic, environmental and social benefits. With reference to productive activities of mango developed in the Submédio São Francisco region, which are held, largely to meet the foreign market, and therefore need to be accomplished efficiently and at the same time must comply with criteria quality to ensure food safety and environmental criteria, to minimize the impact of the activity; it is considered that the use of eco-innovations in mango production companies in the region can contribute to the sustainability of this activity. In this sense, this research objective was to analyze the benefits of eco-innovations adopted in the mango production activities of the Submédio São Francisco region and its contributions to the sustainability of agriculture. To support the analyses in both constructs were used: for identification and characterization of eco-innovations and their benefits we used the typology of eco-innovations by Könnölä, Carrillo-Hermosilla and Gonzalez (2008); and to analyze the sustainability of productive activities of mango in the region, we used the methodology of calculation of Sustainable Development Index – SDI, by Sepúlveda (2008). From the adaptation of theoretical models aimed at implementing the activities of production mango, we developed a data collection instrument, semi-structured type form, to guide the visits to companies in the sector in the region in order to collect information on variables set to assess the relationship between adoption of eco-innovations and sustainability of agriculture. Were visited ten companies exporters of mango to collect primary data. In accordance with the defined parameters or the weight scale, these data were subjected to qualitative and/or quantitative analysis. As an application of the results of the eco-innovation model in production mango in the Submédio São Francisco region, found that the amount of eco-innovations adopted by companies is low in relation to the possibilities available in the five dimensions of the model and, the type of benefits of eco-innovations adopted is predominantly economic. The result of the SDI for productive activities of mango in the region was 0.51, featuring the unstable state of this activity. Thus, it was found that there is an effective relationship between the presence of eco-innovations and the state of sustainability of productive activities of mango in the region because, as few ecoinnovations were adopted, prioritizing the economic benefits, this was reflected in the evaluation of SDI of activity, which indicated the state of the mango production in the region as "unstable", in terms of sustainability.