A implantação do sistema de certificação socioambiental na agricultura de soja no Município de Balsas - MA

Abstract

Given the trend on the world market of socioenvironmental certification initiatives in soy farming and the adoption of this mechanism by the producers ' group in the town of Balsas (MA), their theoretical and practical understanding still requires further information. Thus, this work has for objective to analyze the General deployment dynamics of socioenvironmental certification system in soybean agriculture in the town of Balsas (MA). In this sense, to understand this process, it was necessary to review the literature about the technological innovations in agriculture in order to identify which mechanisms inductors of this change. For this we present a discussion of the theoretical perspective of innovation neoschumpeteriana and contextualisation of environmental problems faced by soy producers that have conditioned the adoption of social and environmental certification system in the production of soybean in the municipality of Balsas (MA). We concluded after research that the chance of adoption of social and environmental certification system in soybean production aims to overcome the embarrassment of market due to the occurrence of illegal deforestation and burning in the municipality is valid. In these terms, the evolutionary theory of the economy presents itself as a theoretical framework for understanding the process of implementation of environmental certification as convergence of technological trajectories through the institutions representing the producers of soybeans, because it puts the problem of environmental degradation in agriculture as a triggering event of response to the emergence of area-problem (environmental degradation), search and selection-inducing factor for innovation in an environment of intense transformation and competitiveness.