A aplicação dos princípios da precaução e prevenção como instrumentos para uma agricultura sustentável

Abstract

The 1988-Brazil’s Federative Republic Constitution guarantees everyone an ecologically balanced environment, so that its preservation and protection for present and future generations is in charge of the Government and the community at the same time. In view of this, this study approached, on one hand, to a study on the agricultural activity as an exponent economic area and the impact that it causes to the environment, and on the other hand, the need to achieve sustainable development. Through analysis and bibliographic search, it’s been aimed to briefly conceptualize the Environmental Law and its object and then enter the study of two important principles: Precaution and Prevention, arising from the International Environmental Conferences. After such analysis, it’s been started a study on agriculture, its importance in the national and global scenario, and its current situation as an economic activity, by checking its history and the impacts generated by it to the environment, always through the inductive approach, starting with simpler informations in order to obtain bigger conclusions about the subject. Finally, this work longed to note the possibility of a sustainable agriculture when analyzing the application of the Precaution and Prevention Principles, making visible the need to combine sustainable development and economic progress to obtain the necessary agricultural sustainability along a guaranteed quality of life.