Angel AVADICIRAD, UPR Recyclage et risque, F-34398 Montpellier, France+33 (0)4 67 61 59 67angel.avadi@cirad.frhttp://ur-recyclage-risque.cirad.fr

SETAC Europe 26th Annual Meeting, LCAS06

Methodological challenges for LCA of agricultural supply chainsproducing food, fibre and bioenergy

Across the supply chain

Farm level

Regional level

Agricultural LCA

System boundariesCut-off criteria

Different environmental concerns/priorities in relation with target

outputs

FoodFibre

Energy crops

Additional impact categories

NutritionEcologicalimpacts

• SPOTLIGHT poster TU262: Life cycle assessment of hempconcrete blocs

• Poster TU248: Challenges for improving iLUC negative effects ofbiofuel demand in Spain

• Poster TU249: Environmental Impact of Food Losses from Agriculture toto Consumption in Switzerland

• PLATFORM 258: Comprehensive assessment of fruits andvegetables human health effects in a LCA context

• PLATFORM 262: Environmental Impact of food consumption in EU• Poster TU255: The challenge of combined assessment of environmental

impact and supply of essential fatty acids in omnivore and vegetariandiets

• Poster TU256: Impacts of food consumption: a missing hot spot in LCA?• Poster TU257: Joint assessment of environmental Life Cycle

Assessment results and grape quality using multicriteria evaluation withfuzzy logic

Farm typologiesRegionalised LCA

Multiple methods/ strategies

Different environmental concerns/priorities in

relation with production strategies

Conventional vs. organicExtensificationvs.

ecological intensificationSpecialisation vs.

mixed-nessFarm self-sufficiency vs. regional collaboration

• SPOTLIGHT poster TU263: A regionalised life-cycle analysisstructure for sustainability assessment of bioenergy systems

• Poster TU250: Country-based and spatially-explicit Land Use Changematrix

• Poster TU251: Modelling the environmental effects of selectedagricultural management strategies with regional statistically-basedLCA

• Poster TU260: How to take into account the crop rotation into Life Cycleassessment of crop at national scale? (ECOALIM project)

• Poster TU258: Grape LCA : How to better assess organic and integratedtechnical management routes?

Direct emissions from soil management and

animal husbandry

Multiple methods/ strategies

• SPOTLIGHT poster TU265: Modelling agricultural production: systematic analysis of secondary Life Cycle Inventories

• PLATFORM 259: Pesticides' impacts of bananas from differentregions

Inventory data, foreground vs background

Multiple secondary data

sources

Common challenges

Allocation strategiesBiophysical

Mass, energyMarket-based

ALCA vs. CLCA

Multiple methods/ strategies

Water footprintsMultiple

methods/ strategies

• PLATFORM 261: Which functional unit to assess environmentalimpacts of dairy system intensification?

• Poster TU259: A new biophysical allocation in LCA of beef cattlecoproducts

• Poster TU252: Combining Life Cycle Assessment and economicmodelling to assess effects of agricultural policies on the environmentalimpacts of the French dairy sector

• PLATFORM 260: Towards a consensual method to assess climatechange impacts from bio-based systems

• Poster TU253: Developing a data-driven model to quantify farm-specificgreenhouse gas life cycle emissions for open-field tomato production ona global scale

• SPOTLIGHT poster TU264: Influence of crop management on wateruse of agricultural products

• Poster TU254: Water use as a regional LCA indicator in the productionof bio-based succinic acid using corn and wheat as potential primaryresources in France

LULUC impacts: Climate change(incl.

Biogenic carbon)BiodiversitySoil quality

Human health

Uncertainty management

Multiple criteria

Multiple sources and methods

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