Benefits of the projects carried out under the premises of a clean development mechanism in hog raising.

The clean development mechanism (CDM) represents an alternative to stimulate the implementation of sustainable undertaking under the economical, environmental and social aspects, through sectors being regarded as potentially polluting. In face of such scenario, this research aims to analyze the benefits which have arisen out of investments in hog raising undertaking. This is an exploratory research, carried out with its base on a documental analysis of a negotiation between two entities, being one a national company and the other, a foreign one, both located in Mato Grosso state. The present study has revealed the existence of a series of advantages that came along with the gas methane treatment generated by the animal’s waste. Such advantages include the elimination of environmental impact and its costs, energy production aiming self maintenance, bio-fertilizers production, which are less harmful to the soil and the underground water, with no additional costs. We have noticed the need to create means to identify and measure the referred benefits, targeting to obtain