Determinación de la huella de carbono en el cultivo y producción del cacao (Theobroma Cacao) y planteamiento de estrategias para su reducción en la Finca Yaussa, cantón Puerto Quito, provincia de Pichincha

Abstract

The great problem generated by the different activities of human beings, have led to generate different greenhouse gases, and temperature changes around of the world. Currently, one of the activities that most generates greenhouse gases, is agriculture; This is why all the companies they carry out, this business turn, they are looking for alternatives to reduce their environmental impacts, they are doing this by reducing its carbon footprint, which has been defined as an indicator of the amount of greenhouse gases they generate. Ecuador is characterized by having a wide variety of cocoa plantations, in consequence, to this, the present investigation was proposed, whose purpose is to determine the carbon footprint generated by cocoa production in the 'Finca Yaussa', canton of Puerto Quito, Pichincha Province, in addition to proposing strategies, to reduce gases from greenhouseeffect generated during the production and processing of cocoa.