MODELO DE CONSTRUCTO PARA ANÁLISE DA SUSTENTABILIDADE NA ATIVIDADE LEITEIRA

Abstract

The objective of the study is to propose a construction model that includes indicators aimed at measuring activity in dairy farming. To this end, develop a set of indicators based on the literature, addressing sustainability in the economic, social, environmental and institutional policies. As for the methodological framework, this research can be considered as descriptive, based on documentary analysis and was carried out through a qualitative approach, using the Delphi methodology. Then, in order to achieve the aforementioned objective, a list of indicators was sent to five specialists in the milk production chain (directors, managers, presidents and cooperative technicians) who work in the collection, storage and processing of dairy products. As for the results found, the SISB model (Bovine Sustainability Indicators System) had a total of 70 indicators, of which 34 were allocated to economics, 16 to social indicators, 12 to environmental indicators and 8 to institutional indicators. The contribution of this study is based, in the case of a fact compiled several indicators scattered in the literature on sustainability and submitted them to the criteria of specialists in the dairy cattle segment with the intention of adapting such methods in the context of the dairy activity.