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Life Cycle Inventory and Carbon and Water FoodPrint of Fruits and Vegetables: Application to a Swiss Retailer
[Image: see text] Food production and consumption is known to have significant environmental impacts. In the present work, the life cycle assessment methodology is used for the environmental assessment of an assortment of 34 fruits and vegetables of a large Swiss retailer, with the aim of providing...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3394405/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22309056 http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/es2030577 |
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author | Stoessel, Franziska Juraske, Ronnie Pfister, Stephan Hellweg, Stefanie |
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description | [Image: see text] Food production and consumption is known to have significant environmental impacts. In the present work, the life cycle assessment methodology is used for the environmental assessment of an assortment of 34 fruits and vegetables of a large Swiss retailer, with the aim of providing environmental decision-support to the retailer and establishing life cycle inventories (LCI) also applicable to other case studies. The LCI includes, among others, seedling production, farm machinery use, fuels for the heating of greenhouses, irrigation, fertilizers, pesticides, storage and transport to and within Switzerland. The results show that the largest reduction of environmental impacts can be achieved by consuming seasonal fruits and vegetables, followed by reduction of transport by airplane. Sourcing fruits and vegetables locally is only a good strategy to reduce the carbon footprint if no greenhouse heating with fossil fuels is involved. The impact of water consumption depends on the location of agricultural production. For some crops a trade-off between the carbon footprint and the induced water stress is observed. The results were used by the retailer to support the purchasing decisions and improve the supply chain management. |
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spelling | pubmed-33944052012-07-12 Life Cycle Inventory and Carbon and Water FoodPrint of Fruits and Vegetables: Application to a Swiss Retailer Stoessel, Franziska Juraske, Ronnie Pfister, Stephan Hellweg, Stefanie Environ Sci Technol [Image: see text] Food production and consumption is known to have significant environmental impacts. In the present work, the life cycle assessment methodology is used for the environmental assessment of an assortment of 34 fruits and vegetables of a large Swiss retailer, with the aim of providing environmental decision-support to the retailer and establishing life cycle inventories (LCI) also applicable to other case studies. The LCI includes, among others, seedling production, farm machinery use, fuels for the heating of greenhouses, irrigation, fertilizers, pesticides, storage and transport to and within Switzerland. The results show that the largest reduction of environmental impacts can be achieved by consuming seasonal fruits and vegetables, followed by reduction of transport by airplane. Sourcing fruits and vegetables locally is only a good strategy to reduce the carbon footprint if no greenhouse heating with fossil fuels is involved. The impact of water consumption depends on the location of agricultural production. For some crops a trade-off between the carbon footprint and the induced water stress is observed. The results were used by the retailer to support the purchasing decisions and improve the supply chain management. American Chemical Society 2012-02-06 2012-03-20 /pmc/articles/PMC3394405/ /pubmed/22309056 http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/es2030577 Text en Copyright © 2012 American Chemical Society http://pubs.acs.org This is an open-access article distributed under the ACS AuthorChoice Terms & Conditions. Any use of this article, must conform to the terms of that license which are available at http://pubs.acs.org. |
spellingShingle | Stoessel, Franziska Juraske, Ronnie Pfister, Stephan Hellweg, Stefanie Life Cycle Inventory and Carbon and Water FoodPrint of Fruits and Vegetables: Application to a Swiss Retailer |
title | Life Cycle Inventory and
Carbon and Water FoodPrint of Fruits and Vegetables: Application to a Swiss Retailer |
title_full | Life Cycle Inventory and
Carbon and Water FoodPrint of Fruits and Vegetables: Application to a Swiss Retailer |
title_fullStr | Life Cycle Inventory and
Carbon and Water FoodPrint of Fruits and Vegetables: Application to a Swiss Retailer |
title_full_unstemmed | Life Cycle Inventory and
Carbon and Water FoodPrint of Fruits and Vegetables: Application to a Swiss Retailer |
title_short | Life Cycle Inventory and
Carbon and Water FoodPrint of Fruits and Vegetables: Application to a Swiss Retailer |
title_sort | life cycle inventory and
carbon and water foodprint of fruits and vegetables: application to a swiss retailer |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3394405/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22309056 http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/es2030577 |
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