Life cycle of meats: An opportunity to abate the greenhouse gas emission from meat industry in Japan

Roy, Poritosh; Orikasa, Takahiro; Thammawong, Manasikan; Nakamura, Nobutaka; Xu, Qin; Shiina, Takeo

doi:10.1016/j.jenvman.2011.09.017

Cited by 61 publications

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“…At the base of it, the environmental performance of any production system hinges on the energy and material regime that supports the good or service it generates (Smil 2013). In agriculture, it is the production factors (fertilizers, land, fossil fuel energy, pesticides, irrigation, farming structures, and mechanized equipment) that influence the environmental burdens of food system (Davis et al 2010;Roy et al 2012;Meier and Christen 2013) and, in less frequently, transport (FAO 2011a). Our endeavor is to identify the broad characteristics of UA systems these capital inputs.…”

Section: Urban Agriculture-where Do We Stand?mentioning

confidence: 99%

Urban versus conventional agriculture, taxonomy of resource profiles: a review

Goldstein

Hauschild

Fernández

et al. 2016

Agron. Sustain. Dev.

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Urban agriculture appears to be a means to combat the environmental pressure of increasing urbanization and food demand. However, there is hitherto limited knowledge of the efficiency and scaling up of practices of urban farming. Here, we review the claims on urban agriculture's comparative performance relative to conventional food production. Our main findings are as follows: (1) benefits, such as reduced embodied greenhouse gases, urban heat island reduction, and storm water mitigation, have strong support in current literature. (2) Other benefits such as food waste minimization and ecological footprint reduction require further exploration. (3) Urban agriculture benefits to both food supply chains and urban ecosystems vary considerably with system type. To facilitate the comparison of urban agriculture systems we propose a classification based on (1) conditioning of the growing space and (2) the level of integration with buildings. Lastly, we compare the predicted environmental performance of the four main types of urban agriculture that arise through the application of the taxonomy. The findings show how taxonomy can aid future research on the intersection of urban food production and the larger material and energy regimes of cities (the "urban metabolism").

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Section: Urban Agriculture-where Do We Stand?mentioning

confidence: 99%

Urban versus conventional agriculture, taxonomy of resource profiles: a review

Goldstein

Hauschild

Fernández

et al. 2016

Agron. Sustain. Dev.

138

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“…In addition, different rearing scenarios (organic and conventional) have been compared from an environmental perspective in an attempt to define the best option . Analysis from a cradle-to-grave perspective to obtain comprehensive information for the whole process (including the logistics, cooking and consumption stages) has been rarely considered (Roy et al, 2012;Wiedema et al, 2008).…”

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Life Cycle Assessment of broiler chicken production: a Portuguese case study

González‐García

Gomez-Fernández

Dias

et al. 2014

Journal of Cleaner Production

104

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“…That is, 0.47 kg CO 2 eq are generated per kilogram of broiler live weight or 0.70 kg CO 2 eq to produce a kilogram of carcass meat. The farm's CO 2 eq emissions (Table 3) were lower than those of other poultry systems (Thynelius 2008, Williams et al 2006, Wiedemann et al 2017 and those reported for the production of pork and beef (Roy et al 2011, Cederberg et al 2009). The present study focuses on the energy consumption inside the poultry house, but does not consider the production of poultry feed, a process reported as the largest energy consumer (Nguyen et al 2012, Wiedemann et al 2017).…”

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Energy analysis and CO2 eq emissions of chicken meat production

Baltierra-Trejo

Arroyo-Pitacua

Márquez-Benavides

2017

Ecosist. Recur. Agropec.

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ABSTRACT. In México, greenhouse gas emissions from the agricultural sector include mainly enteric and manure sources. However, emissions due to the use of fossil energy are usually not considered. The aim of this work was to identify the energy demand (MJ) to produce a kilogram of chicken meat, and to determine the associated CO 2 equivalent emissions. To that end, a farm in west-central Mexico was studied to prole the energy demand to supply water, feed, lighting, ventilation, air extraction and heating, using 1000 birds as a calculation basis. It was found that the emissions derived from fossil energy use were 0.47 kgCO 2 eq per kilogram of live weight per production cycle.

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Life cycle of meats: An opportunity to abate the greenhouse gas emission from meat industry in Japan

Cited by 61 publications

References 32 publications

Urban versus conventional agriculture, taxonomy of resource profiles: a review

Urban versus conventional agriculture, taxonomy of resource profiles: a review

Life Cycle Assessment of broiler chicken production: a Portuguese case study

Energy analysis and CO2 eq emissions of chicken meat production

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