Evaluación de la sustentabilidad en agroecosistemas

Abstract

In this paper, I show the experience  obtained in Mexico  and Latin America from the application of the Methodological Framework for the Evaluation of Management Systems with Sustainability lndicators between 1999 and 2005. These are diverse efforts to increase and evaluare the sustainability of agro ecosystems under various conditions, with different constraints and results; in sorne cases, these include the comparison of contrasting systems and, in others, the changes obtained for the same system under alternative ways of management.All the cases are attempts to make operative the concept of sustainability applied to sustainable development, specifically supported over the experience of evaluating agro ecosystems under the conditions of the Latin American countries.