A life cycle sustainability assessment of organic and conventional pork supply chains in Sweden
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In this paper, the authors compared the environmental, economic and social sustainability of conventional and organic pork in Sweden using 20 indicators expressed per unit product (1000 kg pork fork weight) and per unit area (1000 ha of farmland) for the four main subsystems in pork supply chains.About:
This article is published in Sustainable Production and Consumption.The article was published on 2021-10-01 and is currently open access. It has received 30 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Supply chain & Social sustainability.read more
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Building a data‐driven circular supply chain hierarchical structure: Resource recovery implementation drives circular business strategy
TL;DR: In this paper , a hierarchical circular supply chain structure from big data including qualitative and quantitative information is proposed to identify the opportunities and challenges of the circular business strategy and life cycle sustainability assessment.
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Key research challenges to supporting farm transitions to agroecology in advanced economies. A review
Lorène Prost,Guillaume Martin,Rémy Ballot,Marc Benoit,Jacques-Eric Bergez,Christian Bockstaller,Marianne Cerf,Violaine Deytieux,Laure Hossard,Marie-Hélène Jeuffroy,Margot Leclere,Marianne Le Bail,Pierre-Yves Le Gal,Chantal Loyce,Anne Merot,Jean-Marc Meynard,Catherine Mignolet,Nicolas Munier-Jolain,Sandra Novak,Virginie Parnaudeau,X. Poux,Rodolphe Sabatier,Chloe Salembier,Eric Scopel,Sylvaine Simon,Marc Tchamitchian,Quentin Toffolini,H. V. D. van der Werf +27 more
TL;DR: In this article , the authors reviewed the literature on and in support of farm transitions to agroecology in advanced economies in order to identify key research challenges and suggest innovative research paths.
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Economic Sustainability of Pig Slaughtering Firms in the Production Chain of Denomination of Origin Hams in Italy
TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyze the economic sustainability of the major pig slaughter firms in Italy, through data analysis of the annual account statement (AAS) on a sample of eight companies analyzed over a ten-year historical series.
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Sustainability assessment of traditional, intensive and highly-intensive olive growing systems in Tunisia by integrating Life Cycle and Multicriteria Decision analyses
Saker Ben Abdallah,Carlos Parra-Lopez,Saida Elfkih,Elisa M. Suárez-Rey,Mercedes Romero-Gámez +4 more
TL;DR: In this paper , an integrated Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment framework is developed to assess the life cycle sustainability of innovative olive farming systems (intensive and highly-intensive) compared to traditional ones (conventional and organic) in Tunisia, one of the world's leading olive oil producers.
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Life cycle cost analysis of agri-food products: A systematic review.
TL;DR: In this paper , a systematic review of the use of LCC in the agri-food sector is presented, where the authors focus on the impact of different types of system boundaries.
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