Biodiversity impacts due to food consumption in Europe.

ABSTRACT: Food security and biodiversity conservation are closely interconnected challenges to be addressed to achieve a sustainable food system on a global scale. Due to the complex nature of food production and consumption system, quantifying the impacts of food supply chains on biodiversity is challenging. Life cycle assessment (LCA) allows for systematically addressing environmental impacts along supply chains, representing a reference methodology that can be applied for assessing food systems. In the present study, 32 representative food products of consumption in the European Union (EU) were selected and their environmental impacts calculated through a process-based LCA. The potential contribution of EU food consumption to the current biodiversity decline has been evaluated adopting both midpo

SUBMITTER: Crenna E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6559135 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature