Meat consumption and water scarcity: beware of generalizations

Ridoutt, Bradley G.; Sanguansri, Peerasak; Nolan, Michelle; Marks, Nicki

doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2011.10.027

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“…This erosion will result in equally increased nutrient and pesticide leaching into water sources, increasing the potential for eutrophication and toxicity associated impacts. Using stress-weighting to evaluate the water footprint can reveal the significance of site selection on water impacts (Ridoutt et al, 2012). For water availability for pineapple, sites in the North and Atlantic regions are preferable.…”

Section: Opportunities Identified For Reducing the Environmental Impamentioning

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Life cycle assessment of fresh pineapple from Costa Rica

Ingwersen

2012

Journal of Cleaner Production

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Section: Opportunities Identified For Reducing the Environmental Impamentioning

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Life cycle assessment of fresh pineapple from Costa Rica

Ingwersen

2012

Journal of Cleaner Production

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“…They stated in their study that the use of catchmentspecific characterization factors is preferred over characterization factors based on globally spatial data for water footprint studies. Ridoutt et al (2012) found that meat production does not necessarily impose a heavy burden on freshwater resource availability. Their case study result is likely to be typical of many low-input, non-irrigated grazing systems.…”

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Farm water productivity in broiler production: case studies in Brazil

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Karbach

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Journal of Cleaner Production

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“…The agriculture and food sectors are highlighted because they account for around 70% of global freshwater withdrawals [10] and are a major source of emissions responsible for freshwater quality degradation. This has led to the emergence of product water footprints as another stand-alone LCA-based environmental indicator [11], used especially in relation to food products [12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19], bio-fuels [20][21][22] and other water-intensive industry sectors such as electricity generation [23].…”

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Comparing Carbon and Water Footprints for Beef Cattle Production in Southern Australia

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Stand-alone environmental indicators based on life cycle assessment (LCA), such as the carbon footprint and water footprint, are becoming increasingly popular as a means of directing sustainable production and consumption. However, individually, these metrics violate the principle of LCA known as comprehensiveness and do not necessarily provide an indication of overall environmental impact. In this study, the carbon footprints for six diverse beef cattle production systems in southern Australia were calculated and found to range from 10.1 to 12.7 kg CO 2 e kg −1 live weight (cradle to farm gate). This compared to water footprints, which ranged from 3.3 to 221 L H 2 Oe kg −1 live weight. For these systems, the life cycle impacts of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and water use were subsequently modelled using endpoint indicators and aggregated to enable comparison. In all cases, impacts from GHG emissions were most important, representing 93 to 99% of the combined scores. As such, the industry's existing priority of GHG emissions reduction is affirmed. In an attempt to balance the demands of comprehensiveness and simplicity, to achieve reliable public reporting of the environmental impacts of a large number of products across the economy, a multi-indicator approach based on combined midpoint and endpoint life cycle impact assessment modelling is proposed. For agri-food OPEN ACCESSSustainability 2011, 3 2444 products, impacts from land use should also be included as tradeoffs between GHG emissions, water use and land use are common.

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Meat consumption and water scarcity: beware of generalizations

Cited by 69 publications

References 24 publications

Life cycle assessment of fresh pineapple from Costa Rica

Life cycle assessment of fresh pineapple from Costa Rica

Farm water productivity in broiler production: case studies in Brazil

Comparing Carbon and Water Footprints for Beef Cattle Production in Southern Australia

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