In quest of reducing the environmental impacts of food production and consumption

Sala, Serenella; Antón, Assumpció; McLaren, Susan; Notarnicola, Bruno; Saouter, Erwan; Sonesson, Ulf

doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2016.09.054

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“…Food losses at the retail and consumer levels represent most of the avoidable food waste, except for non-avoidable shrinkage during cooking. Potential mitigation strategies to reduce the environmental burdens can be achieved, mainly through the integration of (i) food supply chain optimization possibilities, e.g., through increased productivity and reduced waste, (ii) improvement in the supply chain efficiency through technology enhancement and behavioral changes [82], and (iii) judicious management of generated waste to minimize the undesired emission from landfills. However, this is likely possible only with the implementation of stringent policy measures.…”

Section: Environmental Impacts and Mitigation Potentialmentioning

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Life Cycle Assessment of Dietary Patterns in the United States: A Full Food Supply Chain Perspective

Kim

Parajuli

2020

Sustainability

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A tiered hybrid input-output-based life cycle assessment (LCA) was conducted to analyze potential environmental impacts associated with current US food consumption patterns and the recommended USDA food consumption patterns. The greenhouse gas emissions (GHGEs) in the current consumption pattern (CFP 2547 kcal) and the USDA recommended food consumption pattern (RFP 2000 kcal) were 8.80 and 9.61 tons CO 2 -eq per household per year, respectively. Unlike adopting a vegetarian diet (i.e., RFP 2000 kcal veg or RFP 2600 kcal veg), adoption of a RFP 2000 kcal diet has a probability of increasing GHGEs and other environmental impacts under iso-caloric analysis. The bigger environmental impacts of non-vegetarian RFP scenarios were largely attributable to supply chain activities and food losses at retail and consumer levels. However, the RFP 2000 vegetarian diet showed a significant reduction in the environmental impacts (e.g., GHGEs were 22% lower than CFP 2547). Uncertainty analysis confirmed that the RFP 2600 scenario (mean of 11.2; range 10.3-12.4 tons CO 2 -eq per household per year) is higher than CFP 2547 (mean of 8.81; range 7.89-9.95 tons CO 2 -eq per household per year) with 95% confidence. The outcomes highlight the importance of incorporating environmental sustainability into dietary guidelines through the entire life cycle of the food system with a full accounting of the effects of food loss/waste.

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Section: Environmental Impacts and Mitigation Potentialmentioning

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Life Cycle Assessment of Dietary Patterns in the United States: A Full Food Supply Chain Perspective

Kim

Parajuli

2020

Sustainability

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“…Not only does the growing world population cause the high demand of this product, but also its nutritional benefits, such as a high content of proteins, vitamin B and minerals, and a low level of saturated fats (Windhorst, 2006). In parallel, the costumers' needs have shown an important evolution toward high-quality food produced under more environmentally friendly conditions (de Boer, 2003;Gonz alez-Garcia et al, 2014;Iribarren et al, 2011;Sala et al, 2017).…”

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Environmental impact assessment of chicken meat production via an integrated methodology based on LCA, simulation and genetic algorithms

López-Andrés

Aguilar-Lasserre

Morales-Mendoza

et al. 2018

Journal of Cleaner Production

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“…The breadth of this research has focused on the effectiveness of the innovation process and the determinants of innovation adoption. However, in spite of the direct impacts of farming activities on environmental quality (Narayanan, ; Sala et al ., ), farm enterprises have attracted only a limited share of attention compared with other sectors of economic activity. So, a question that can inform sustainable policy making but still remains open is ‘Why do farmers adopt green innovations?’.…”

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Green Innovativeness in Farm Enterprises: What Makes Farmers Think Green?

Lioutas

Charatsari

2017

Sustainable Development

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This work is based on the conjecture that multiple motivational pathways might lead to the adoption of green innovations. A sequence of two studies was designed to identify motives driving farmers to adopt green innovations. Study 1 aimed at the development of a scale assessing potential adoption motives. Study 2using this measureexamined which of these motives predict farmers' adoption behavior. Study 1 uncovered five factors that affect adoption decision: adaptation to the social process of innovation diffusion, environmental concern, convenience, economic incentives and the internal need to pursue change. Study 2 showed that perception of the convenience of an innovation is a significant antecedent of farmers' green innovativeness. Economic drivers, farmers' environmental concern and their need to pursue novelty are also positively associated with aspects of green innovativeness. Our results underscore the multidimensional nature of green innovativeness and generate challenging directions for future research in the field of sustainable development.

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In quest of reducing the environmental impacts of food production and consumption

Cited by 244 publications

References 6 publications

Life Cycle Assessment of Dietary Patterns in the United States: A Full Food Supply Chain Perspective

Life Cycle Assessment of Dietary Patterns in the United States: A Full Food Supply Chain Perspective

Environmental impact assessment of chicken meat production via an integrated methodology based on LCA, simulation and genetic algorithms

Green Innovativeness in Farm Enterprises: What Makes Farmers Think Green?

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