Assessment of the environmental impact of three types of fertilizers on the cultivation of coffee at the Las Delicias indigenous reservation (Cauca) starting from the life cycle assessment

Vera-Acevedo, Luz Dinora; Vélez-Henao, Johan Andrés; Grisales, Natalia Marulanda

doi:10.17533/udea.redin.n81a09

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“…Figure 3 shows that cultivation represents the phase with the most impact on the carbon footprint, with 67% emissions of greenhouse gases. This coincides with the information reported by several authors who affirm this is one of the stages with the most impact for this category [8,10,11,14,47,48]. However, impacts associated to the carbon footprint in the cultivation phase can be variable according to the management of the planting process, as is shown in Table 4.…”

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“…For this study, it was proposed that the impacts associated with the flow of energy from the biomass would be considered to be "avoided" impacts from the corresponding conventional fossil Vera et al [48] reported for a conventional coffee production process a carbon footprint value that represents 14% of the result obtained for the base case (S-A) proposed in the current ACV. The main difference is that this one used solar energy for coffee drying, which considerably limits the continuity and intensity of coffee production.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Environmental Impact Associated with the Supply Chain and Production of Grounding and Roasting Coffee through Life Cycle Analysis

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Coffee is the beverage resulting from the infusion of roasted and ground seeds of the coffee fruit. It is one of the most commercialized products in the world and represents a high interest agro-industrial product in Mexico. The demand for this product has grown in great measure in the last decade, thus it is becoming more important to make environmental and energetic evaluations of its manufacturing process. In this sense, life cycle assessment (LCA) is a useful tool for the purposes of this study, as it quantifies the wake of environmental impacts associated to the production and supply chain from its inputs and outputs of the product system. Therefore, the impact categories studied were carbon, energetic, and water footprints. The cultivation phase led to global contributions between 61% and 67% in magnitude for energy and carbon footprints, respectively; meanwhile, the coffee benefit process was the phase with the most contributions to the water footprint (54%). The residual biomass from the product system used as the energy supply within the coffee drying sub-phase represented energy savings of around 41% in comparison to the use of conventional fossil fuels, thus reducing the global impact associated to the system’s product.

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Environmental Impact Associated with the Supply Chain and Production of Grounding and Roasting Coffee through Life Cycle Analysis

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“…Other authors, however, as they focus on the production process, consider other FUs. For example, the production of 1 kg of coffee, as studied by Del Monte et al [18], Giraldi Diaz et al [19] and Trinh et al [20] and the production of 1 ton of coffee, as analyzed by Coltro et al [21] and Vera-Acevedo et al [22]. Therefore, there is not much agreement between FUs.…”

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An Overview of Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) in the Coffee Supply Chain

Vinci

Maddaloni

Prencipe

et al. 2022

New Innovations in Economics, Business and Management Vol. 9

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Coffee is one of the most popular beverages globally, as well as an important source of income for some Countries. It is one of the psychoactive beverages and is the second most traded commodity after oil. Due to its economic and health relevance, it is of great interest to the agri-food sector, and it could be important to assess the environmental impacts associated with its production and consumption. Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) is recognized as a valid quantitative tool for assessing the sustainability of a product or process. Within this work, an overview of LCA applications in the coffee supply chain was conducted. The results show the studies are still limited, they focus as much on the production phase as on production and consumption, and that there is no agreement either between functional units (FU), which vary depending on the type of research and the type of Country, nor between system boundaries, which consider different stages of production and consumption. There is also no concordance between methodologies and impact categories chosen, which in turn vary according to the method, which is chosen according to the Country of origin of the study. The impact categories most considered are linked to the environmental macro-area, human health and resources.

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“…Furthermore, [4] conducted life cycle research to examine the environmental impacts of various types of fertilizers, such as climate change, acidification, eutrophication, and the depletion of fossil fuels and resources. Several LCAs have been conducted investigating the fertilizer use in the production of coffee [5], maize, and soybeans [6]. In addition, research [7] presented three distinct fertilizer treatment scenarios for cauliflower and tomatoes in an LCA.…”

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Greenhouse Gas Analysis in Field Maize Agriculture Using Life Cycle Assessment

Darmawan¹,

Ilmannafian²,

Kiptiah³

2022

IOP Conf. Ser.: Earth Environ. Sci.

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The scope of this research was limited to analyzing land preparation and harvested maize. This study aimed to identify and measure the largest GHG in each process of field maize farming to design efficient mitigation efforts. This research employed a field research method and involved five farmer groups with different field maize farming models. The data analysis referred to the SNI ISO 14040: 2016 Framework, consisting of four stages: goal and scope definition, life cycle inventory analysis, life cycle impact assessment, and life cycle interpretation. The life cycle inventory used energy coefficients, emission factors, and the Intergovernmental Panel Climate Change (IPCC) guidelines. The results showed that the Total Global Warming Potential (GWP 100) in one ton of shelled maize production was 251.50–10,000.29 CO2 eq. The largest GWP was found in biomass burning and the use of Urea and NPK fertilizers. The potential for burning biomass was 5,533.67–9,683.93 CO2 eq per ton of shelled maize. There are two recommended efforts to minimize GHG emissions: converting biomass into feed and using organic fertilizer to reduce GWP from the use of fertilizer.

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Assessment of the environmental impact of three types of fertilizers on the cultivation of coffee at the Las Delicias indigenous reservation (Cauca) starting from the life cycle assessment

Cited by 7 publications

References 4 publications

Environmental Impact Associated with the Supply Chain and Production of Grounding and Roasting Coffee through Life Cycle Analysis

Environmental Impact Associated with the Supply Chain and Production of Grounding and Roasting Coffee through Life Cycle Analysis

An Overview of Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) in the Coffee Supply Chain

Greenhouse Gas Analysis in Field Maize Agriculture Using Life Cycle Assessment

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