Environmental degradation and agriculture: an approach in countries by middle of indexes/Degradacao ambiental e a agropecuaria: urna abordagem em paises por meio de indices

• Published in: Ciência rural 2022-06, Vol.52 (6), p.1
• Main Authors: Pinto, Nelson Guilherme Machado, Rossato, Vanessa Piovesan, Muller, Andressa Petry, Coronel, Daniel Arruda
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• ISSN: 0103-8478
• DOI: 10.1590/0103-8478cr20201067

Society evolution is commonly follow ed by changes; however, some of them bring negative implications for the community. One of these consequences refers to environmental degradation, which has agricultural activity as one of its influencing agents, which is essentially characterized by man spredatory actions. Accordingly, this research analyzed the environmental degradation in 167 pattern in the agricultural world. Therefore, the Agricultural Environmental Degradation Index (IDAA) was used as a proxy for agricultural environmental degradation and the factor analysis technique. Results indicated that the most degraded country was Russia, which belongs to the European continent; however, the other positions were occupied predominantly by Africa, followed by North America and Oceania. Issues such as rural poverty and primitive natural settings can leverage this phenomenon. The lowest rates of degradation were concentrated on Central America and Europe, where agricultural activity was most incipient. In this sense, a directly proportional relationship between environmental degradation and agricultural practice was reported considering that countries dependent on this phenomenon had the most worrying results. Thereby, there is an emerging need for public policies that integrate economic and environmental dimensions that reduce negative impacts in the regions most degraded. Key words: environmental degradation, degradation index, countries. A evolugao da sociedade comumente vem acompanhado de mudangas, no entanto, algumas delas tem trazido implicagoes negativas para a comunidade. Urna dessas consequencias, diz respeito a degradagao ambiental que tem como um de seus agentes influenciadores a atividade agropecuaria, protagonizada essencialmente por agoes predatorias do homem. Nesse sentido, o objetivo desse trabalho e analisar o padrao de degradagao ambiental agropecuario de 167 paises do mundo. Para tanto, foi utilizada a metodologia do indice de Degradagao Ambiental Agropecuaria (IDAA) como proxy para a degradagao ambiental agropecuaria e a tecnica de analise fatorial. Pelos resultados, identificou-se que o pais mais degradado e a Russia, pertencente ao continente europeu. Entretanto, as demais posigoes dos paises mais degradados, foram predominantemente africanos, seguido do continente da America do Norte e Oceania. Questoes como pobreza rural e cenarios naturais primitivos podem alavancar esse fenomeno. Os menores indices de degradagao concentraram-se nos con