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A review of life cycle assessment (LCA) on some food products.
Poritosh Roy,Daisuke Nei,Takahiro Orikasa,Qingyi Xu,Hiroshi Okadome,Nobutaka Nakamura,Takeo Shiina +6 more
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In this article, the authors presented some of the LCA studies on agricultural and industrial food products, recent advances in LCA and their application on food products and reviewed literatures indicate that agricultural production is the hotspot in the life cycle of food products.About:
This article is published in Journal of Food Engineering.The article was published on 2009-01-01. It has received 848 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Sustainable products & Food security.read more
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Comparing environmental impacts for livestock products: A review of life cycle assessments
M. de Vries,I.J.M. de Boer +1 more
TL;DR: Differences in environmental impact among pork, chicken, and beef can be explained mainly by 3 factors: differences in feed efficiency, differences in enteric CH4 emission between monogastric animals and ruminants, and differences in reproduction rates.
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Systematic review of greenhouse gas emissions for different fresh food categories
TL;DR: This article presented the results of a systematic literature review of greenhouse gas emissions for different food categories from life cycle assessment (LCA) studies, to enable streamline calculations that could inform dietary choice.
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The price of protein: Review of land use and carbon footprints from life cycle assessments of animal food products and their substitutes
TL;DR: This work analysed 52 life cycle assessment studies of animal and vegetal sources of protein to identify the range of impacts and the most important factors thereof.
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Environmental impact of dietary change: a systematic review
TL;DR: In this paper, a systematic review assessing the environmental impact of dietary change is performed, which includes 14 peer-reviewed journal articles assessing the GHG emissions and land use demand of in total 49 dietary scenarios.
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Quality, safety and sustainability in food distribution : A review of quantitative operations management approaches and challenges
TL;DR: This paper reviews quantitative operations management approaches to food distribution management, and relates this to challenges faced by the industry, with main focus on three aspects: food quality, food safety, and sustainability.
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The Revision of ISO Standards 14040-3 - ISO 14040: Environmental management Life cycle assessment Principles and framework - ISO 14044: Environmental management Life cycle assessment Requirements and guidelines
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The New International Standards for Life Cycle Assessment: ISO 14040 and ISO 14044
TL;DR: The two new standards, ISO 14040 and ISO 14044, reconfirm the validity of the main technical content of the previous standards and serve as core reference documents for the users and practitioners of LCA.
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Life cycle assessment of milk production — a comparison of conventional and organic farming
TL;DR: In this paper, an LCA was performed on organic and conventional milk production at the farm level in Sweden, focusing on substance flows in concentrate feed production and nutrient flows on the farms.
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Life cycle assessment of various cropping systems utilized for producing biofuels: Bioethanol and biodiesel
Seungdo Kim,Bruce E. Dale +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, a life cycle assessment of different cropping systems emphasizing corn and soybean production was performed, assuming that biomass from the cropping system is utilized for producing biofuels (i.e., ethanol and biodiesel).
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Farm costs and food miles: an assessment of the full cost of the UK weekly food basket
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors assess a variety of scenarios for adoption of organic farming, localised food systems and sustainable transport to indicate the substantial potential to reduce environmental costs in the UK food system.
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