The binomial formed by the environment and social responsibility, conceptually presents contributions that at the organizational level exert one on the other.
Hence, if we frame these guidelines in agribusiness as a model to promote social effort, taking into account sustainable development as an ethical concept that should prevail in all organizations, we will surely obtain better productive results.
Social responsibility in agribusiness, circumscribes dimensions that influence performance, and that can achieve competitive advantages, trying to minimize the negative effects that certain aspects of this type of organizations cause in the environment.
With the development of social responsibility, agribusinesses, in addition to carrying out good practices in their activities, could be considered socially responsible agents and, therefore, improve their corporate image, prestige and reputation.
Some authors refer to social responsibility as the degree of obligations that an organization assumes through actions that protect and improve the welfare of society.
Social responsibility in agribusiness means developing the activity without limiting itself exclusively to the legal or regulatory limits in force, but responding to the requirements or demands of the different social groups that converge in its agro-productive system, so that agribusinesses will be socially responsible when they react more or less voluntarily to the requirements of the social groups, not only because of legal imperatives.