ANÁLISIS COMPARATIVO DE LOS IMPACTOS AMBIENTALES ENTRE PROYECTOS SOBRE EXTRACTORAS DE PALMA AFRICANA

Abstract

The development of african palm plantations poses significant environmental problems such as: threat against  forests,  intensive  use  of  chemical  inputs,  impact  on  biodiversity  and  impact  on  humans.  All productive activity generates environmental impacts, these can be positive or negative, so it is necessary to determine and identify what these impacts are, to prevent, mitigate, or remedy to be the case. The target of bibliographic research was to know and identify the most relevant possible environmental impacts both  positive  and  negative  in  its  different  main  actions  for  the  extraction  of  african  palm  oil  in  order to  perform  a  complete comparative  analysis  of  the environmental impacts.  The  Impact  Assessment  in the collected studies was performed using the matrices Identification (Leopold Matrix), Evaluation and Environmental Impacts results. The extractor Palmeras Mariangel Manabi SA submitted a total of 169 and 28 environmental impacts respectively. Finally it was determined that the enviromental factors more disadvantaged and matching in both studies are: affecting groundwater, erosion and soil destruction and alteration of flora and fauna. Moreover the environmental factors more beneficiaries are: job creation, improving the local economy of the zone of the extractor and improving basic services.