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Applications of nutritional functional units in commodity-level life cycle assessment (LCA) of agri-food systems

Graham A. McAuliffe, Taro Takahashi, Michael R. F. Lee

The International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment · 2019

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Summary

The LCA community should continue the ongoing effort to link farm management decisions to diet-level environmental impacts through an enhanced focus on human nutrition across the entire value chain. Future research comparing environmental performances of multiple food groups or multiple production systems should acknowledge differences in nutritional composition and bioavailability between the final products and, ideally, the effects of these nutrients on overall dietary quality.

Source type
Peer-reviewed study
DOI
10.1007/s11367-019-01679-7
Catalogue ID
SNmohktxoo-7m5z62
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