Álvarez Hincapié, Carlos FedericoAcevedo Aponte, JuliánHernández Ceballos, Arley CamiloPiedrahita Arias, Jaime Sebastián2012-07-122012-07-1220071909-0455http://hdl.handle.net/10567/524Looking for safe and environmentally respectful products, retailers and manufacturers became more interested in the use of “sustainable” methods. In the agricultural production this includes diverse concepts like integral farms, none or minimum pesticide use, environmental sensitivity, long term soil management, as well as preoccupations related to the worker dignity, health, and well-being. The Colombian floriculture represents one of the main agricultural sectors for the country, due to its employment generation and external money incoming, but its production can entail diverse ecological and social problems. It is here where the management systems and environmental certification work. The management is related to a process of continuous improvement through the planning, the implementation of good practices, the elaboration of protocols, registries and revision. In the floriculture there are different certification systems like EurepGAP-GAP, MPS, FLP and the Rainforest Alliance, among others. In Colombia the program Florverde, by Asocolflores, is remarkable. These systems present differences and similarities in their approaches and demands, but in general they can be related with the search of a greater sustainability on the flower production. Nevertheless, its sole implementation does not guarantee sustainability.esGestión ambientalÁrea Metropolitana del Valle de AburráCorporación Universitaria LasallistaFloricultura - ColombiaFloriculturaCertificación agroambientalSistema de manejo ambiental (ems)Milieu project sierteelt (mps)Good agricultural practices (gap)ISO 14000Flower label programme (flp)Código Internacional de Conducta para flores cortadas (ICC)FlorimarkMax havelaarFair flowers and plants (ffp)Article