Global Sustainability Index (GSI) construction: an evaluation tool for public policies directed at sustainable milk production in contemporary time

Sustainable development refers to agricultural and industrial activities the understanding of sustainability assumes greater complexity, which requires economic, social, environmental, institutional, technological, cultural geographical emphasis be considered, because what is sustainable for one region may not another. The article aims show methodological criteria construction Global Sustainability Index (GSI) its importance in evaluation public policies milk production contemporary times. methodology considers institutional technological dimensions, better assessing economically active activities. survey took place Rondônia with 400 dairy farmers, where we obtained GSI that achieved average sustainability, = 0.42. economic dimension presented an index 0.52, being most among analyzed dimensions. Following decreasing order, comes social 0.44 0.41, and, low was dimension, showed 0.39, 0.32 decimal points sustainability. This result indicates need political efforts performance sector.