Infodoc : Sciences, Techniques et Culture

PART 1 ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS OF FOOD PRODUCTION AND PROCESSING
Improving nutrient management in agriculture to reduce eutrophication, acidification and climate change
- Introduction
- Eutrophication and acidification
- Climate change
- Mismanagement of nutrients
- Future trends
- References
Increasing the efficiency of water use in crop production
- Introduction
- Water scarcity – the global dimension
- Fu[...]

PART 1 ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS OF FOOD PRODUCTION AND PROCESSING
Improving nutrient management in agriculture to reduce eutrophication, acidification and climate change
- Introduction
- Eutrophication and acidification
- Climate change
- Mismanagement of nutrients
- Future trends
- References
Increasing the efficiency of water use in crop production
- Introduction
- Water scarcity – the global dimension
- Future demand for water and food
- Improving water use efficiency in agriculture
- Future trends and options to increase water use efficiency
- Conclusions
- References
PART 2 LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT OF FOOD PRODUCTION AND PROCESSING
Life cycle assessment (LCA) of food production and processing: an introduction
- Introduction
- History of life cycle assessment (LCA)
- LCA as a decision-support tool
- Application of LCA to food systems
- Future trends
- Sources of further information and advice
- References
Methodology for life cycle assessment
- Introduction
- Application of LCA
- LCA methodology in short
- Critical methodology choices
- Examples of different applications’ demands on methodology
- Recent trends in LCA
- Sources of further information and advice
- References
Challenges relating to data and system delimitation in life-cycle assessments of food products
- Introduction
- System delimitation in agricultural life cycle assessments (LCAs)
- System delimitation in electricity LCAs
- System delimitation and by-products in food LCAs
- Future trends
- Sources of further information and advice
- References
Challenges in assessing the environmental impacts of crop production and horticulture
- Introduction
- Main challenges: (a) defining agricultural systems
- Main challenges: (b) understanding agricultural systems
- Implications and recommendations
- Future trends
- References
Complexities in assessing the environmental impacts of livestock products
- Introduction
- Complexities in assessing the environmental impacts of livestock systems
- Inventory analysis
- Impact assessment
- Future trends
- References
Challenges in assessing the environmental impacts of aquaculture and fisheries
- Introduction
- Overview of the biological impacts of fishing
- Overview of the biological impacts of aquaculture
- Energy use and carbon footprint of seafood supply chains
- Eco-labeling of seafood
- Conclusions and future trends
- Acknowledgement
- References
PART 3 CURRENT AND FUTURE APPLICATIONS OF LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT AND RELATED APPROACHES
Towards sustainable industrial food production using life cycle assessment approaches
- Introduction
- Case studies
- Methodological approach: proposal of a framework
- Discussion
- Conclusions
- References
Addressing land use and ecotoxicological impacts in life-cycle assessments of food production technologies
- Introduction
- Life-cycle impact methods for land occupation and transformation
- Life-cycle impact methods for ecotoxicity
- Future trends
- Conclusions
- Sources of further information and advices
- References
Combining life-cycle assessment of food products with economic tools
- Introduction
- Methods of combining life cycle assessment (LCA) of food products with economics tools
- Discussion and conclusion
- References
Inclusion of social aspects in life cycle assessment of food
- Introduction
- Including social aspects in life cycle assessment (LCA) of food
- Methods of including social aspects in LCA of food
- Applications
- Future trends
- Sources of further information and advice
- References
Ecodesign of food products
- Introduction
- What is ecodesign?
- The spiderweb approach
- Perspectives
- Future trends
- Sources of further information and advice
- References
Footprinting methods for assessment of the environmental impacts of food production and processing
- Introduction
- Footprinting, comparison and contrast to life cycle assessment (LCA)
- An introduction to ecological footprinting
- Water footprinting
- Carbon footprinting
- Environmental footprinting
- Nitrogen footprinting
- Non-environmental footprinting
- Future trends
- Sources of further information and advice
- References
Carbon footprinting and carbon labelling of food products
- Introduction
- Principles of carbon analysis and carbon labelling of food products
- Examples of some food products for which carbon footprints have been published
- Difficulties and uncertainties in calculating carbon footprints
- Future trends
- Sources of further information and advice
- References
Sustainability indicators for the food supply chain
- Introduction
- Sustainability indicators and sustainability benchmarking in the supply chain
- Sustainability indicators for the food supply chain
- Application of analytical network process (ANP) to sustainability scores
- Future trends
- Sources of further information and advice
- References
PART 4 ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT IN THE FOOD INDUSTRY
Establishing an environmental management system in the food industry
- Introduction
- Drivers for and benefits of implementing environmental management systems (EMS) in the food industry
- Food industry context
- Implementing an EMS
- Auditing environmental management systems
- Success factors
- Conclusions
- Sources of further information and advice
- References
Environmental training for the food industry
- Introduction
- The value and nature of environmental training
- Training needs and improving environmental understanding throughout the organisation
- The concept of the learning organisation: thinking in systems
- Barriers to effective training
- Learning in the supply chain
- The external training situation: shared vision and the ‘learning lab’
- On-the-job training
- Internet-based training
- Maintaining a learning organisation
- Future trends
- Sources of further information and advice
- References
Eco-labelling of agricultural food products
- Introduction
- Main approaches
- Comparison
- Effectiveness
- Future trends
- Conclusions
- References