Brazilian pig production: environmental licensing

Abstract

Studies of various international agencies indicate Brazil as the biggest supplier in animal protein to the world. This position will be reach between 2015 and 2020. Nowadays, the country is the biggest in the exportation of beef and poultry, and pig meat will be an important commodity because it is the most consumed around the world. The pig production provides social and economical benefits, but if manage in an incorrect way, has a big environmental impact. One of instruments that society has to regulate the relation between pig production and environment are environmental legislation. Brazil has a recent history about these laws, but should evaluate and analyze them in the present to produce with environmental security. Analyzing the environmental legislation in other countries that regulate the pig production and the cultural, social, and economical brazilian conditions will allow to delineate tendencies to environmental regulation of this activity. This analyze will enable to food chain subsidies to them take decisions in a pro-active and preventive manner to the environmental future of brazilian pig production.