The necessity of sustainable development has driven the replacement of fossil fuels by using renewable sources, which has enabled advances in agricultural and industrial research and strengthened the competitiveness of the Brazilian's sugarcane industry. The sugarcane expansion and the development and modernization of the sugar sector are contributing to the strengthening of the Brazilian agribusiness and for brazilian's economic growth. The Brazilian territory has big areas with agricultural potential, and the technological advance in sugarcane industry has encouraged the Brazilian government to invest on the sugarcane expansion in degraded pastures, mainly in the central-western. This article aims to present results of the use of a methodology for assessing sustainability of the sugarcane expansion in Mato Grosso do Sul State. Some sustainability indicators were selected for the micro-region of Mato Grosso do Sul, which were evaluated for their sustainability and compared using the methodology of the Sustainability Barometer.
Sustainability indicators; Sugarcane; Sustainability Barometer
