FarmLCA: a LCA tool for capturing the complexity of agro-ecological farm systems (original) (raw)
de Baan, Laura; Moakes, Simon; Oggiano, Philipp; Landert, Jan and Pfeifer, Catherine (2024) FarmLCA: a LCA tool for capturing the complexity of agro-ecological farm systems. Paper at: 14th International Conference on Life Cycle Assessment of Food 2024 (LCA Food 2024), Barcelona, Spain, 8-11 September 2024. [Completed]
The FarmLCA, which comprises two parts: 1) a farm system model for interactions of crops, livestock, trees and soils and 2) a coupled LCA of on- and off-farm environmental impacts. To demonstrate the model we assess a typical mixed farm in Scotland, UK, producing arable crops and beef, and show the effect of agro-ecological innovations introduced on that farm.