Deliverable 3.3: The role of the post-farm food chain for sustainability indices

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Deliverable 3.3: The role of the post-farm food chain for sustainability indices
Paper authors
Gema Carmona-Garcia (JRC)
Adrian Leip (JRC)
Date
Apr 5 2017
Description The analysis of post-farmgate biomass streams is crucial for accurately quantifying the environmental impact associated with the food that we eat. It is also the pre-requisite for identifying opportunities to move into the direction of an agri-food system with low emissions and with closed nutrient circles. We identified a few areas where a full chain life-cycle assessment was not yet possible with the tools available: slaughterhouses, cereal processing, waste management systems and consumers. In this report we perform a literature review for each of these ‚pools‘ and compile data that can be used in ‚modules‘ that will be implemented for the SUSFANS toolbox. The assessment is based on – and further develops – the framework developed by the UN-ECE for the quantification of national nitrogen budgets.
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