Paths to a sustainable food sector: integrated design and LCA of future food supply chains: the case of pork production in Sweden

Sonesson, Ulf; Lorentzon, Katarina; Andersson, Annica; Barr, Ulla-Karin; Bertilsson, J.; Borch, Elisabeth; Brunius, Carl; Emanuelsson, Margareta; Göransson, L.; Gunnarsson, Stefan; Hamberg, Lars; Hessle, Anna; Kumm, Karl-Ivar; Lundh, Åse; Nielsen, Tim; Östergren, Karin; Salomon, Eva; Sindhöj, Erik; Stenberg, Bo; Stenberg, Maria; Sundberg, Martin; Wall, H.

doi:10.1007/s11367-015-0969-5

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“…Consider for example, comparisons between more or less intensive agriculture, and organic versus non-organic agriculture; many LCA studies find that agricultural intensification leads to less overall environmental impacts per functional unit (Sonesson et al 2015, Kulak 2013) (but see Chobtang et al (this volume) for an exception to this generalisation). The rationale is that higher yields per hectare of land or per animal are beneficial if the level of used resources does not increase to the same extent.…”

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The role of life cycle assessment in supporting sustainable agri-food systems: A review of the challenges

Notarnicola

Sala

Antón

et al. 2017

Journal of Cleaner Production

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Life cycle thinking is increasingly seen as a key concept for ensuring a transition towards more sustainable production and consumption patterns. As food production systems and consumption patterns are among the leading drivers of impacts on the environment, it is important to assess and improve food-related supply chains as much as possible. Over the years, life cycle assessment has been used extensively to assess agricultural systems and food processing and manufacturing activities, and compare alternatives "from field to fork" and through to food waste management. Notwithstanding the efforts, several methodological aspects of life cycle assessment still need further improvement in order to ensure adequate and robust support for decision making in both business and policy development contexts. This paper discusses the challenges for life cycle assessment arising from the complexity of food systems, and recommends research priorities for both scientific development and improvements in practical implementation. In summary, the intrinsic variability of food production systems requires dedicated modelling approaches, including addressing issues related to: the distinction between technosphere and ecosphere; the most appropriate functional unit; the multi-functionality of biological systems; and the modelling of the emissions and how this links with life cycle impact assessment. Also, data availability and interpretation of the results are two issues requiring further attention, including how to account for consumer behaviour.

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The role of life cycle assessment in supporting sustainable agri-food systems: A review of the challenges

Notarnicola

Sala

Antón

et al. 2017

Journal of Cleaner Production

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“…3.1.2 Analysis at sectoral and national level Sonesson et al (2015) analyzed the supply chains of six commodities, i.e., milk, cheese, beef, pork, chicken, and bread, from a Swedish region and presented the pork chain as an example. Three scenarios addressing different environmental goals (reduce local impact on ecosystems, optimize plant nutrient use and supply, and reduce climate impact and energy use) were investigated.…”

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Environmental impacts of food consumption and nutrition: where are we and what is next?

Nemecek

Jungbluth

Canals³

et al. 2016

Int J Life Cycle Assess

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Purpose This article introduces the special issue "LCA of nutrition and food consumption" and 14 papers selected from the Ninth LCA Food Conference in San Francisco in October 2014. Literature overview The scientific literature in the field of food LCA has increased more than ten times during the last 15 years. Nutrition has a high contribution to the total environmental impacts of consumption. Agricultural production often dominates the impacts, but its importance depends on the type of product, its production mode, transport, and processing. Local or domestic products reduce transports, but this advantage can be lost if the impacts of the raw material production are substantially increased. Diets containing less meat tend to be more environmentally friendly. Several studies concluded that respecting the dietary recommendations for a healthy diet would reduce the overall environmental impacts in the developed countries, although this is not a universal conclusion. Contribution of this special issueEight papers analyze the environmental impacts of catering and in-house food consumption and impacts on sectoral and national levels; four papers presents tools and methods to better assess the impacts of nutrition and to implement the results in practical decisionmaking. Finally, two contributions analyze the impacts of food waste and reduction options. Communication of the environmental impact assessment results to stakeholders including policy-makers and consumers needs additional efforts. Research needs and outlook (i) Development of holistic approaches for the assessment of sustainable food systems, (ii) assessment of land use related impacts and inclusion of ecosystem services, (iii) exploration of LCA results for policy support and decision-making, (iv) investigation of food consumption patterns in developing and emerging countries, and (v) harmonization of databases.

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“…At the level of signal transmission, many scholars generally agree that brands can effectively solve the problem of information transmission for agricultural products. Sonesson et al [7] gave detailed descriptions, life cycle assessment (LCA) evaluations, and consequence assessments of supply chains for six commodities, i.e., milk, cheese, beef, pork, chicken, and bread, in a Swedish region. The results for the pork supply chain show that a change in the supply chain can easily lead to the change of all kinds the properties of the products in the system [7].…”

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Based on the Internet Plus the Safety of Agricultural Products Traceability Research

Zhou¹,

Zhou

Fang³

et al. 2018

2018 5th International Conference on Behavioral, Economic, and Socio-Cultural Computing (BESC)

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The purpose of this research is to explore the emergence and implementation of agricultural security traceability systems in the agricultural products supply chain in China and to understand what benefits that an agricultural security traceability system based on "Internet+" can provide to the agricultural products supply chain in China. This research made three hypothesis about big data and technology, platforms and other means for product quality and safety of agricultural products traceability. In order to verify the accuracy of these three assumptions, regression analysis were used to construct five models for verification of three hypothesis. The results show that based on "Internet+" , using big data, big technology and big platform can significantly increase the accuracy of agricultural products traceability system hence improve consumer acceptance of the safety of agricultural products.

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Paths to a sustainable food sector: integrated design and LCA of future food supply chains: the case of pork production in Sweden

Cited by 29 publications

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The role of life cycle assessment in supporting sustainable agri-food systems: A review of the challenges

The role of life cycle assessment in supporting sustainable agri-food systems: A review of the challenges

Environmental impacts of food consumption and nutrition: where are we and what is next?

Based on the Internet Plus the Safety of Agricultural Products Traceability Research

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