Produção de alimentos e mudanças climáticas: a importância da agroecologia e da apicultura como alternativas para mitigação de impactos

Abstract

This study is the analysis of data from the Fifth Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Report, which presents scientifically the implications that global warming will have on terrestrial ecosystems and human society. From these data, in two chapters, the pros and cons of large Brazilian conventional farming on the need to adapt to the current scenario of climate change were analyzed. The fact that Brazil is one of the largest food producers in the world raises its level of importance in global discussions. The analyzes indicate that while agriculture and livestock contributes to economic stability and the country's food, is a powerful delay in the actions of environmental conservation, reduced emissions, agroecological transition and biodiversity conservation. Through official data and theoretical review also found themselves a serious decline of pollinators in the world and the considerable degree of dependence of these by Brazilian cultures. Among the pollinators, Apis mellifera honeybee is the one that stands out and brings more benefits to the human species, is necessary for maintaining global food production and human and animal well-being, through various types of ecosystem services. Because the high level of involvement of Brazil with conventional agriculture and livestock, it was concluded that hardly occur a significant agroecological transition in the short or medium term, which strengthens the need to improve apiculture and national agroecology - still insufficient - as a way of minimize the impacts of global warming and generate more conditions to adaptation