Can Attributional Life Cycle Assessment Tell us How to Farm and Eat Sustainably?

Can Attributional Life Cycle Assessment Tell us How to Farm and Eat Sustainably?

John Lynch1 and Tara Garnett2

1 Atmospheric Oceanic and Planetary Physics, Department of Physics, University of Oxford, United Kingdom

2 Food Climate Research Network, Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford, United Kingdom

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Attributional Life Cycle Assessments (ALCA) track activities and inputs associated with environmental impacts through a product supply chain. ALCAs of different foods and global food system models have introduced agricultural life cycle assessments into the public realm. Four challenges related to the environmental impacts of food production, and potential ways to reduce them, need to be considered.

 

 

Publication details

Lynch, J. and Garnett, T. 2020, Can Attributional Life Cycle Assessment Tell us How to Farm and Eat Sustainably?. Integr Environ Assess Manag, 16: 400-402. doi:10.1002/ieam.4270