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El índice de beneficio emergético (IBE) como indicador de sostenibilidad de las exportaciones del sector agropecuario de un país

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2015-07

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Corporación Universitaria Lasallista

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Introduction. The EmBI is obtained from the relationship of conventional economic value (CEV) between the emergy economic value (EEV). For EEV the emergy approach was used to convert the amounts exported (kg) to emergy values. Emergy, unlike the conventional costbenefit analysis, is a measure of the value of human work plus the work done by nature in the generation of a good or resource. Objective. The aim of this study was to propose an indicator (Emergy Benefit Index - EmBI) to measure the sustainability of exports of the agricultural sector of a country. Materials and methods. To check the validity of the proposed method data of the exports in the agricultural sector of Peru between 1994 and 2014 was taken. Results and conclusions. A reading of this proposed indicator can show that Peruvian agricultural exports was unsustainable only in 2001 and 2002; other years this economic sector is manifested as sustainable, although from 2005 sustainability increases, reaching the year 2014 a EmBI of 1.64. This indicator would measure if an economy receives fair price due to exports (EmBI more than 1) or not (EmBI under 1).

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Corporación Universitaria Lasallista, Facultad de Ciencias Administrativas y Agropecuarias, Sostenibilidad, Agroindustria - Comercio exterior, Indicadores de producción, Agroindustria - Colombia

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