Environmental profile of paddy rice cultivation with different straw management

Fusi, Alessandra; Bacenetti, Jacopo; González‐García, Sara; Vercesi, A.; Bocchi, Stefano; Fiala, Marco

doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2014.06.126

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“…It is assumed that straw is incorporated into the soil (soil improvement). So paddy rice is the only product and no allocation is needed (in accordance with Blengini and Busto 2009;Brodt et al 2014;Fusi et al 2014.…”

Section: Life Cycle Stagesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Global guidance on environmental life cycle impact assessment indicators: progress and case study

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Int J Life Cycle Assess

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Purpose The life cycle impact assessment (LCIA) guidance flagship project of the UNEP/SETAC Life Cycle Initiative aims at providing global guidance and building scientific consensus on environmental LCIA indicators. This paper presents the progress made since 2013, preliminary results obtained for each impact category, and the description of a rice life cycle assessment (LCA) case study designed to test and compare LCIA indicators. MethodsThe effort has been focused in a first stage on impacts of global warming, fine particulate matter emissions, water use and land use, plus cross-cutting issues and LCA-based footprints. The paper reports the process and progress and specific results obtained in the different task forces (TF). Additionally, a rice LCA case study common to all TF has been developed. Three distinctly different scenarios of producing and cooking rice have been defined and underlined with life cycle inventory data. These LCAs help testing impact category indicators which are being developed and/or selected in the harmonisation process. The rice LCA case study further helps to ensure the practicality of the finally recommended impact category indicators. ResultsThe global warming TF concludes that analysts should explore the sensitivity of LCA results to metrics other than GWP. The particulate matter TF attained initial guidance of how to include health effects from PM 2.5 exposures consistently into LCIA. The biodiversity impacts of land use TF suggests to consider complementary metrics besides species richness for assessing biodiversity loss. The water use TF is evaluating two stress-based metrics, AWaRe and an alternative indicator by a stakeholder consultation. The cross-cutting issues TF agreed upon maintaining DALY as endpoint unit for the safeguard subject "human health". The footprint TF defined main attributes that should characterise all footprint indicators. "Rice cultivation" and "Cooking" stages of the rice LCA case study contribute most to the environmental impacts assessed. ConclusionsThe results of the TF will be documented in white papers and some published in scientific journals. These white papers represent the input for the Pellston workshop TM , taking place in Valencia, Spain from 24 to 29 January 2016, where best practice, harmonised LCIA indicators and an update on the general LCIA framework will be discussed and agreed on. With the diversity in results and the multi-tier supply chains the rice LCA case study is well suited to test candidate recommended indicators and to ensure their applicability in common LCA case studies.

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Section: Life Cycle Stagesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The functional unit (FU) is 1 kg of cooked white rice consumed at home as most frequently selected in LCA studies of rice production systems Blengini and Busto 2009;Brodt et al 2014;Fusi et al 2014;Hokazono and Hayashi 2012. The complete case study inventories are explained in detail in the supplementary material.…”

Section: Introduction and Overviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

Global guidance on environmental life cycle impact assessment indicators: progress and case study

Frischknecht

Fantke

Tschümperlin

et al. 2016

Int J Life Cycle Assess

116

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“…Table 3 reports the estimated emission to the environment for SS1. Pesticide derived emissions into water, soil and water were excluded from the system boundary due to the high uncertainty related to their fate in the environment (Sleeswijk et al, 2008;Fusi et al, 2014).…”

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Anaerobic digestion and milking frequency as mitigation strategies of the environmental burden in the milk production system

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Science of The Total Environment

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“…The Vercelli rice district (NW Italy, Piedmont Region, Province of Vercelli, 45°19′00″N / 8°25′00″E), extending over a cultivated area of 68,000 ha [1], is the most important Italian area for rice cultivation [2]. In 2007, 70.20% of the arable land in the Province of Vercelli was used to cultivate rice and 29.80% was used for other crops (20.89% other cereals, especially maize, and 8.91% other minor crops, i.e.…”

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An Italian population-based case-control study on the association between farming and cancer: Are pesticides a plausible risk factor?

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Carcagni

Sacco

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Archives of Environmental & Occupational Health

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This population-based case-control study investigated the association between farming (a proxy for pesticide exposure) and cancer in the Vercelli suburban area (northwest Italy). The residents, aged 25 to 79 years, in the above-mentioned area during the period 2002-2009 were considered. Cases were all the first hospital admissions for cancer. Controls were all the subjects not included in the cases and not excluded from the study. Cases and controls were classified according to whether they occupationally resulted farmers or nonfarmers during the period 1965-2009. Cancer odds ratios (ORs) between farmers and nonfarmers were calculated with generalized linear mixed models adjusted by gender and age. Farmers showed higher odds for all cancers (OR=1.459; p < .001), nonmelanoma skin cancer, colorectal cancer, and breast cancer. The results suggest a plausible association between pesticide exposure and cancer occurrence.

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Environmental profile of paddy rice cultivation with different straw management

Cited by 81 publications

References 35 publications

Global guidance on environmental life cycle impact assessment indicators: progress and case study

Global guidance on environmental life cycle impact assessment indicators: progress and case study

Anaerobic digestion and milking frequency as mitigation strategies of the environmental burden in the milk production system

An Italian population-based case-control study on the association between farming and cancer: Are pesticides a plausible risk factor?

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