Evaluation of Environmental Load on Friuts and Vegetables Consumption and Its Reduction Potential

Yoshikawa, Naoki; Amano, Koji; Shimada, Kōji

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“…This implies that a system is more, less, or fairly sustainable in relation to the environmental objective to be achieved. From the comparison with the literature shown in Table 5 [8,15,16,[39][40][41][42] only for the GWP category, it can be noted that the values calculated in this study were, on average, similar to those obtained in the studies that focused on greenhouse (GH) cultivation [8,16,39,42], except for the Japan case, which had a much higher value. In comparison with the results from Italian case studies [16,40], the calculated values are higher, but it is a comparison with different systems (open field-OF) that in some cases last for several years.…”

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Life Cycle Assessment of Protected Strawberry Productions in Central Italy

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Agricultural activities in Europe cover half of the total area of the continent and are simultaneously a cause of environmental impact and victims of the same impact. Horticultural or fruit crops are considered highly intensive and often employ many crop inputs such as fertilizers, pesticides, and various materials. Strawberry falls into this group, and it has grown in acreage and production more than others globally. The aim of this study is to compare the environmental impact of two strawberry cultivation systems in central Italy, a mulched soil tunnel and a soilless tunnel system. The method used to assess the impact is LCA, widely applied in agriculture and supported by international standards. The data used are mainly primary, related to 2018, and representative of the cultivation systems of central Italy. For impact assessment, the method selected was the CML_IA baseline version. From the results obtained, the two systems show a similar impact per kg of strawberries produced (e.g., for global warming: 0.785 kg CO2 eq for soilless, 0.778 kg CO2 eq for mulched soil tunnel). Reduced differences can be observed for the use of crop inputs (greater for the tunnel) and the use of materials and technology (greater for soilless). The mitigation measures considered concern the replacement of the packaging (excluding plastic) and the growing medium of the soilless using perlite and compost from insect breeding.

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Life Cycle Assessment of Protected Strawberry Productions in Central Italy

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“…Table 3. Quantity of food items consumed (including processing and foodservice use) [14,15] (a) Local production and consumption…”

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“…Since required detailed logistics had not been calculated for rice, the transport margin per unit yield was determined from the Japanese input-output table and multiplied by the intensity of GHG emissions [17]. The estimate of life cycle GHG emissions for major items as calculated by Yoshikawa et al [15] was employed for vegetables, because these authors had used methods similar to those used for rice. As detailed data for each prefecture were available, the estimation for transportation was made in the following manner: It was assumed that for intraprefectural transport, trucks would be used, while the differences in the transport systems of the prefectures were taken into consideration for inter-prefectural transport.…”

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“…This scenario was specific to a linear programming problem to minimize GHG emissions, based on the estimate by Yoshikawa et al [15]. Given the production and consumption of each item in each prefecture and the GHG emissions per unit transport volume between the prefectures, the GHG emissions were minimized within a limitation of production and consumption quantit.…”

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“…The difference between the GHG emissions value in actual situation and this scenario (Equations 3) is the maximum GHG reduction potential. (b) Seasonal production and consumption The estimation used in this scenario was also based on the data supplied by Yoshikawa et al [15]. Based on the assumption that the consumption of summer vegetables in winter and winter vegetables in summer will decline, the scenario for the shift in consumption was developed according to the following method:.…”

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Sustainable consumption plays an important role in the mitigation of global warming and the conservation of energy. Promoting more environmentally responsible consumer behavior, especially through open communication between stakeholders, is one way to achieve low-carbon consumption. This study evaluates the potential for reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions through behavioral transformation of consumers in terms of their daily shopping habits. In this context, the behavioral transformative actions pertain to certain foods and daily necessities, and are analyzed from a life cycle assessment perspective. We developed multiple product-selection scenarios to evaluate GHG emissions related to the daily purchase of commodities. Based on the life cycle assessment, we estimated the GHG emissions that result from the production and distribution of these commodities, pertaining to both the current product selection and to a possibly improved selection. The results of our study show that because of seasonal consumption patterns and energy conversion, there is a substantial potential to reduce GHG emissions resulting from outof-season produce cultivation. The GHG reduction potential is not high for each individual commodity because diverse commodities are needed on a daily basis. However, various actions in combination could have substantial potential for reducing emissions.

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Feeding Urban Regions: Estimating the Energy Consumption of Domestic Vegetable Supplies for Osaka, Japan

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Tsuchiya

2017

Science for Sustainable Societies

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Evaluation of Environmental Load on Friuts and Vegetables Consumption and Its Reduction Potential

Cited by 13 publications

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Life Cycle Assessment of Protected Strawberry Productions in Central Italy

Life Cycle Assessment of Protected Strawberry Productions in Central Italy

Greenhouse gases reduction potential through consumer’s behavioral changes in terms of food-related product selection

Feeding Urban Regions: Estimating the Energy Consumption of Domestic Vegetable Supplies for Osaka, Japan

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