The concern with the environmental dimension of sustainability has become more and more relevant in studies related to agribusiness. The need of a robust and trusty framework to measure the environmental impacts in the agribusiness activities is being presented as a trend in countries leaders in food production worldwide, like Brazil. In this context, this paper describes a review related to the concept of Life Cycle Assessment - LCA which is being widely recognized and used by technicians and researchers all over the world to the environmental impacts of production chains and allowing various applications on the production systems. The paper was elaborated based on a bibliographical research carried out by accessing national and international publications, websites and proceedings of scientific events. Its main goal is to describe the importance and the diffusion of LCA as a framework to analyse production systems in Brazilian agribusiness. In conclusion, the LCA framework is still not widespread in the Brazilian agribusiness as well as the studies about this subject are still very scarce.
biodiversity; fresh water; soils; waste; environmental management
