Management influence on environmental impacts in an apple production system on Swiss fruit farms: Combining life cycle assessment with statistical risk assessment

Greenhouse gas emissions from conventional and organic cropping systems in Spain. II. Fruit tree orchards

“…Our results show a high response of the carbon footprint to differences in management, in line with other studies on greenhouse gas emissions from orchards (e.g., Mouron et al 2006). Carbon sequestration was the greatest contributor to reduced global warming potential under organic farming in most of the studied systems (citrus, fruits, vineyards, olives), while energy-related emissions were smaller contributors.…”

A life cycle assessment of non-renewable energy use and greenhouse gas emissions associated with blueberry and raspberry production in northern Italy

“…Williams et al (2008) reported that there is clear potential here for increasing customer satisfaction while, at the same time, reducing environmental impacts by designing new, eco-friendly packaging systems for foods. Finally, based not only on this study but also on an analysis of the key literature regarding sustainable fruit production (Granatstein and Kupferman, 2006;Mila i Canals and Clemente Polo, 2003;Mouron et al, 2006), it can be observed that the raspberry and blueberry chains are amongst the production systems showing the greatest interaction with natural systems. Indeed, these types of fruit farms, more than many other agri-food chains, can be seen in terms of a relationship between nature and the technical sphere.…”

“…Mila i Canals et al (2006) conducted a life cycle analysis (LCA) of apple production in two different regions of New Zealand, as did Mouron et al (2006) in Switzerland. In Sweden, Carlsson-Kanyama (1998) studied the greenhouse gas emissions involved in the production life cycle of a variety of products (e.g., carrots, tomatoes, potatoes, pork, rice, and dried peas).…”

“…The environmental costs of fruit growing have been studied in terms of the consumption of resources (e.g., water, soil, air, energy) or in terms of various impacts (e.g., pollution, risks to human health and to the eco-system, reduction of bio-diversity) (Reganold et al, 2001). Some recent studies have attempted to assess the total environmental cost of various fruit species throughout their entire life cycle by applying the LCA criteria (Mila i Canals and Clemente Polo, 2003;Mouron et al, 2006), analysis of the associated ecological footprint (Cerutti et al, 2010), or other methods of evaluation.…”

Applying life cycle management of colombian cocoa production

“…Among the recent LCA agricultural studies (Mouron et al, 2006;Zufia & Arana, 2008;Pardo & Zufia, 2012;Roer et al, 2012;Ruviaro et al, 2012), only one study evaluated the application of LCA in the cocoa production in Ghana, in which the entire system was required to produce and process 1 kg of cocoa (Ntiamoah & Afrane, 2008). On the other hand, TLF quantifies the variability of a given process.…”